March 30, 2008
My Blog Posts Bring All the Boys to The Yard
Between you and me, it's not a good idea to go and stand outside in sub-freezing temperatures for an hour immediately after spin class. "So," you say, "don't go to spin class." To which I say, "Neither you nor Conan wants to deal with a grumpy, grabby person who didn't get the chance to expend her Saturday morning energy and pent-up stress for the remainder of the weekend." I'll admit it--I'm a sucker for THAT kind of pain.
Anyway, yesterday's noontime hour found me freezing at the sidelines of a first grade boys' soccer game with no energy in reserves to warm myself. While it royally sucked, it was worthwhile to see His Honor bonding with some of this classmates for next year. We beat a hasty retreat home afterwards, and then I proceeded to stand in the shower for no less than twenty minutes, just letting the warm water warm my frozen-inside-out bones.
And this all hit me a couple of hours later. I found myself completely immobile on the couch watching the third-in-a-row episode of Spongebob (which I probably would have done, anyway). There were dishes to wash, laundry items to fold, and countertops in need of maple syrup removal. However, when you're semi-comatose those things just don't seem to get done, you know? I stumbled through the rest of the evening, and I'm not really sure how.
By the way, did I tell you that His Honor taught me to play chess a couple of weeks ago? I've only beaten him once.
Obviously, I am puffed-chest proud of him for wanting to do activities that involve thinking, but I think perhaps one of the things he likes about it is that he gets to spend time with us. We try and not be too pushy about things like that and let him take the lead. But while he does love the little boy things like cars and Pokemon, I think he also likes those little "windows" of activity that let him be even with us old folks on certain levels. We certainly enjoy it as well.
Is there a blogging rule that forgives the lack of a witty sentence at the end of any entry if you post a cute picture? If so, I'm invoking it.
