We didn’t have car seats and you weren’t supposed to be in the house during daylight. But our parents didn’t stand around while we played outside. We would also ride on the hood of the car on the way down the half mile driveway. Country living. We got machete’s for Christmas.
You never know how ridiculous some of our words are until you have the clarity of a child.
This was actually someone else. I saw a mom just walking through the parking lot with a flailing kid over her shoulder and another under one arm and she got one into the car and chased down the other. I was thoroughly impressed by her calm. I had to yell across the parking lot my support of her situation.
I have since gone through the house with Draino and a pot of boiling water. But sometimes the sinks just get backed up. The kids sink gets this pink grits build up.
There’s an age when all kids seem to be innately standoffish towards strangers who try and talk to them. I encourage this. Great survival instinct.
All toddler kisses come with a lipstick ring of snot.
My mom used the fraise “they’re still a part of your skin”. For a while, your kid still feels like a part of your own body. After a point though, they really are rubbing snot on you and it is not alright.
I liked that Hot Fuzz covered some of the paperwork of being a civil servant. Frozen kind of jumped over some of the royal duties.
Kids pick up on some weird concepts to explore.
Just because they can do it by themselves doesn’t always mean it’s a good idea.
It really is just a blink but holy hell that baby part lasts an eternity.
