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Monday, December 9, 2013

Is Scatter-Brained a Politically Correct Word?

It is 9:46 in the morning.  Noah and Callie left at 7:55 for school. In the almost two hours since, Lucy has played:

Horses- She got out a million of those little plastic horses and set up a farm.  She used the laundry hamper to create a stable.  Then she brought out her Barbie horse.  So, of course Barbie needed to ride the horse.  That led to...

Barbies- Barbie and Ken got married again.  Barbie rode a horse in an evening gown.  They had a baby.  Lucy got tired of that and decided that every stuffed animal she owns needed to participate in...

Dance Class- Flex, point.  Flex, point.  Everybody did it and then class was over.  Lucy loaded them up into the laundry hamper horse stable and took them to her room.  Seeing her room in such bad shape led her to decide to have a...

Sale- Lucy brought out a carpet and laid all sorts of things on it to sell.  One of those things was a set of teacups, which led to...

TeaParty- I was starting to get a little weary by this point so I wouldn't let her use real tea or even water.  So, it got old quickly.  But, while she was making tea, she was singing her favorite song, What Does a Fox Say?  which led to...

Song Writing- Lucy thought that it would be fun to re-write the song as What Does a Horse Say?  After she wrote her new version of the song, it was time to make a...

Dance- Everyone knows that a song isn't a hit until it has a signature dance move.  She worked on that until I was about to combust.

I stopped her just as she was going for the paper to start an art project.  Good thing she still had homework to complete.  So it's on to...

Homework!

Sweet mercy!!  What a Monday!!  There isn't enough coffee in the world for this job!

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