(Volume IX for Me)
The Pure Conjecture Edition
If you should happen to take off your (imitation) pearl earrings and then put those earrings away for safe-keeping in the little box on your dresser (because it’s the right thing to do and because you’re trying to be better about these things)…
Anyway, if you do all of this because you think that you might possibly have time to color your hair that evening and you don’t want your white pearl earrings to be “bronzed brown”…
It may be weeks before your ear lobes see those earrings again.
I’m just saying.
If you should find that you have less and less time for little (but time-consuming) acts of vanity such as hair-coloring, it may well be that you are running around like a headless madwoman to this or that appointment, practice, meet or rehearsal.
And if you’re running around like a headless madwoman, then you don’t really need your hair colored, now do you?
Speaking of running around to rehearsals.
Even if your (very shy) 6-year-old has her speech for Saints & Scholars down pat, and has a very pretty costume representing Mary, Queen of Martyrs, and has been told (furthermore) that she is doing this for Mary…
She may very well get up on that stage and freeze.
She may refuse to say her lines despite all your cajoling.
And that’s okay.
Even if you have told your (very extroverted) 5-year-old that she must not ask questions about strangers in front of them, she may still (very loudly) ask why the cashier has her eyebrow pierced.
Or (repeatedly) exclaim, “She’s a sister? She’s a sister?” as you visit with a nun who is not wearing a habit.
Speaking of extroverted children.
If you should find yourself growing weary of a certain 5-year-old’s antics, (and again, this is purely conjecture), you might well take some comfort in listening (re-listening?) to the Ramona stories on CD. You will laugh, as will your family. You will be vastly entertained, as will your family.
(Stockard Channing is a excellent narrator.)
And your 5-year-old will take comfort—much wide-eyed and quiet comfort—in the fact that there are indeed other spunky girls like her…
…who get scolded as much as she does.
If you should find yourself the mother of two or three (or even five or six) children…
Children who are shy and extroverted and naughty and nice and funny and helpful and loud and demanding…
You may well find yourself thanking God for this chance to get over yourself.
And you will probably—no, definitely—love all these little ones to folly.
Visit Jen here to see all of the 7 Quick Takes entries from today.
And have a great weekend, everyone!
AMDG,
I needed to read this today. With one of our four kiddos being very demanding, loud, and very naughty, I have found it harder to love him. Getting over myself is even harder. Thanks, dear. 🙂
Thanks for the Friday laugh. I could point each of them out individually, but that would be silly since they really ALL made me chuckle.
And yes, maybe, just maybe, if all of us mom's were running around as head-less madwomen none of us would have to deal with the silly tortures like hair-coloring any way… 🙂
Thanks again Margaret, as always, it made my day!
I just love visiting your blog! You are a gifted writer with a tremendous sense of humor… I know I have said this before, but it is true! Thank you for brightening my evening… now I can put my clan to bed with a smile after learning that we have $2,000 plumbing problem! Peace JMJ
Those were awesome QT's! Funny and insightful – the perfect combo 🙂
You are too funny. Thanks for the laughs.
Stockard Channing doing the Ramona series is one of my favorites! Sally Struthers doing the Angelina series is also pretty darned good.
We've been listening to the Ramona books on CD and they are so funny. We all like them.
Number 4 made me laugh out loud! I have a 5-year-old girl who does the exact same thing.