A Mother's Day Soundtrack
"Mommy has to go potty."
"OK -- I making you a cake!"
"Cake" = green floral foam, now partially crumbled on kitchen table, with small amount of crumbles around child's mouth. Cleaning up, swishing out mouth, throwing away, admonishments about how we are old enough not to put *everything* in our mouth and we don't. eat. things. unless we ask a good grownup if it's OK, and crying ensue.
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"Here you go."
(Daddy): "You forgot already?"
"Oh. Happy Mommy's Day. No, I want dat card back."
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"We don't talk in church. If you have something you need to say in church, do it in a whisper."
Immediately afterward: congregational response.
"Oh, dat man talked in church."
"Oh, blessed spring where Word and sign embrace us into Christ the vine/here Christ enjoins each one to -- don't put the fish cracker up your nose!"
"Oh, dis red flower* doesn't need dat. I just gonna take it off."
*rose. petal.
• • • • •
"OK, Mommy, now you sit in da swing and I push you!
"Wow, you're heavy."
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"Don't shove your plate!"
"I gonna go sit in my room and cry!...I'm sitting here all alone. I'm sitting in here all alone. I'm sitting here ALL alone. I'm sitting here all a-lone...I just gonna stay in here for-ev-er."
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"Mommy, do you like dose earrings?"
"Yes, I like them. Thank you to you and Daddy for getting them for me."
"You're welcome. Happy birthday, Mommy."
"It's not my birthday, honey, it's Mother's Day."
"Happy Mother's Day."
"OK -- I making you a cake!"
"Cake" = green floral foam, now partially crumbled on kitchen table, with small amount of crumbles around child's mouth. Cleaning up, swishing out mouth, throwing away, admonishments about how we are old enough not to put *everything* in our mouth and we don't. eat. things. unless we ask a good grownup if it's OK, and crying ensue.
• • • • •
"Here you go."
(Daddy): "You forgot already?"
"Oh. Happy Mommy's Day. No, I want dat card back."
• • • • •
"We don't talk in church. If you have something you need to say in church, do it in a whisper."
Immediately afterward: congregational response.
"Oh, dat man talked in church."
"Oh, blessed spring where Word and sign embrace us into Christ the vine/here Christ enjoins each one to -- don't put the fish cracker up your nose!"
"Oh, dis red flower* doesn't need dat. I just gonna take it off."
*rose. petal.
• • • • •
"OK, Mommy, now you sit in da swing and I push you!
"Wow, you're heavy."
• • • • •
"Don't shove your plate!"
"I gonna go sit in my room and cry!...I'm sitting here all alone. I'm sitting in here all alone. I'm sitting here ALL alone. I'm sitting here all a-lone...I just gonna stay in here for-ev-er."
• • • • •
"Mommy, do you like dose earrings?"
"Yes, I like them. Thank you to you and Daddy for getting them for me."
"You're welcome. Happy birthday, Mommy."
"It's not my birthday, honey, it's Mother's Day."
"Happy Mother's Day."