Here is why to keep a diary or blog, O Mothers. To remember. I was looking in an OLD OLD section of my blog to find a story about Maisy and a fish named Bertina, and I did not find it, but I did find this, which I had entirely forgotten, from about a decade ago: Every week, my son shows up post Sunday School with a rag-tag assortment of...well... crap. There is usually some sort of object like a paper cup thats been chewed into four parts and then stapled back together, and it is attached to various bits of string and damp ribbon and paper that is attached to other glitter strewn trash bits via brads and tape and spittle. There is never any way for me to decipher what this crap-wad is supposed to be, unless I look at the crafts in the hands of the other children. They will have the same materials assembled into a paper candle, or a pipe cleaner man in a tissue paper robe, or a fish...and then my son bounds out the door with his art project looking like it has been chewed by rabid squirrels, dripping leprous chunks of itself as he yells joyously LOOK LOOK THIS IS THE BOAT THEY WERE FISHING IN BUT THEN THEY DIDNT GET ANY FISH TIL JESUS CAME AND SAID TO FISH ON THE OTHER SIDE. Okay, so, he isnt very crafty, my son. He has no patience for gluing macaroni into the shape of the cross. BUT WHO CARES. As long as he can explain how the wad of crap relates to the lesson, thats the main thing. And up until this week, he absolutely could. Every time. But todays crap-wad was made out a clothespin, several mangled coffee filters, and an obscene amount of paste. He had used enough paste to service all of Guams modest paste needs for a week. My husband questioned him about the object until it was firmly established that it was meant to be a dove. Scott: Oh! Is that the dove of peace? Sam: No. The other kids made the dove of peace. I made the Dove of the ARMY. He has MISSILES. OKAY THEN! I cant wait for next week, when he makes the Vampiric Fanged Lamb of Merciless Carnage!
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:24:34 +0000
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