love them! but no bargaining bedtimes.
THEM: Instead of bedtime…
ME: …Nope!
Our topic this week: BARGAIN. Make one? Need one? What a bargain!
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1. Join Pinterest.
2. See many projects! So many! Good projects! A buffet of craft ideas! Convince self that you can do any of them, any of them at all, just pick! A smorgasbord of projects!
3. Decide to paint rocks. Small, round, easy! Plus the idea is to leave them out in the world to be found by strangers. If we paint messy, no one will ever know it was us.
4. Realize you own no craft paint.
5. Realize you have no rocks.
6. Take break to collect supplies.
7. Set up painting station at kitchen table. Distribute brushes amongst the children.
8. Begin painting yourself.
9. Remember that painting is one of those things, like talking on the telephone or cooking dinner or trying to pee on your own, that causes perfectly happy toddlers to decide that they urgently require your undivided attention.
(HIM: Pick me up! Pick me up! LET ME CLIMB IN THAT PAINT WHY NOT WHY WHY WHY—what? What did you say? Oh yes, let’s sing! No don’t put me down while we sing! Sing and keep holding me! No don’t put me down with toys! Toys and hold me! Sing and toys and hold me! [Approximate translation. Actual dictation sounds like: “mama-ahh-ahh-ahh-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaah-ma,” at increasing volume.]
ME: OH HEY LOOK THERE’S DADDY.)
8. Try to paint tiny hearts. When they don’t look heart-ish, paint bigger hearts over them. Bigger. Again. Then just decide to paint the whole rock that color! That’s what you meant to do all along. Isn’t it? Thought so.
9. Discover that everything looks better with a second coat. Except for the orange, which doesn’t start looking orange until about the eighth coat, at which point you can no longer tell there was a rock underneath.
10. A million coats of paint later, sit back and admire handiwork.
11. Realize that it is dinnertime, and the table is covered in wetly painted rocks.
12. Wonder if you ought to check out what’s new at Pinterest. You have to wait for the rocks to dry, anyway…
This week’s Six Word Fridays topic: BARGAIN. On the hunt? Making your own? Tell us this Friday, in six words.
The “mom.” AKA the “traffic director.”
Our topic this week: STOP & GO. Where are you going? What’s stopping you? Stop-go-stop-go…
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ME: Is it weird that our banana likes clean water?
DANE: It is weird that you just said that.
ME: It’s not like there are bananas out there that like dirty water.
DANE: [raises eyebrows inquisitively]
ME: [points]
DANE: It’s always something with the fruit.
Though I guess if there has to be something weird going on in my kitchen, it might as well be the fruit stickers.
ELI: Oooh, nana! [gulp]
I didn't lose the kids, they just scampered out of the frame.
LOST
keys, diaper bag, grocery list, shoe
lip balm, nail clippers, hair elastics
day planner, scarf, one random spoon
puzzle piece, bookmark, power cord, instructions
track of time, hours, days, weeks
memories I thought I’d hold, vanished
(I don’t even notice they’re missing)
FOUND
?
thinking, thinking…
…
Mostly I lose things.
Well, hello there! This week, we’re writing six words about LOST & FOUND. What have you lost? What have you found? Either or both, literal or figurative: your call.
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