40 Days…..
Five minutes, maybe longer. That’s all I took, honest. After breakfast this morning I took just a short constitutional to the family library. Don’t be impressed. Remember the little hovel of a bedroom that Harry Potter had under the staircase in his uncle’s house? Yeah, think that but smaller. It’s got a light, a lavatory and a seat that is quite comfortable and best of all the door locks. It’s one of the few locking doors in the house. This morning’s read, a magazine or sales flyer, back of a tissue box, whatever else may be within arms reach and a cup of coffee. Five minutes. Then I would be off to the tasks of the day. My list was quite extensive and there would be little time for dilly dally.
The twins, had other plans.
This was not on my list today. Are they trying to tell me something?
In other news….The Lenten Season begins tomorrow. Ash Wednesday. As is tradition in the Catholic faith, or so I’m told, Lent represents the 40 day liturgical season of fasting and prayer before Easter the purpose being preparation through prayer, penitence, alms giving and self denial. It represents the 40 days that Christ spent alone in the desert fasting, praying and enduring the temptations of the devil. Throughout history the season of Lent has been one of tightly held traditions. For the non-Catholic I’m sure it brings to mind little more than the phrase, “So, what are you giving up for Lent?”, the exact question I posed to my children this afternoon.
Zoë, after giving the matter considerable thought decided to give up candy and sweets. More discussion among the kids and Zane eventually relented.
“OK. I’ll give up candy, too”, he said.
“So, Zia. What are you going to give up for Lent?” I asked.
(Long pause.)
“I’m going to give up…….
TOOTHPASTE.”
It’s going to be a long 40 days.
*lol* @ toothpaste. Maybe just the children’s Listerine would do the trick?
Well, if not a long forty days, at least they will be furry.
After much berating from her brother and sister she switched her choice to bread. Thought better of that and went with sweets like the rest of the crowd.
I shudder to think of it!
Toothpaste- smart kid!
Wise beyond her 3+ years.
Haha, smart kid!!
With really bad breath!
Too bad she won’t have any teeth left for Easter candy.
Wow. Mine rather enjoys her toothpaste, but I think she’d be more than happy to give up all greens. LOL!
The beauty of that is at least she’ll be able to eat it since she didn’t give it up for Lent.
The twins–love the toothpaste. Zia, not so much.
Hmmm. I guess next year she can give up having teeth!?
Funny stuff!
So much to say. Initially I read your blurb about you and my mouth dropped open. Wow, five kids. AND twins. At the end.
Then I read this post and laughed out loud, because you MUST be Catholic with five kids.
And then the five minutes. I constantly ask my husband, when that same kind of thing happens to us with our three kids, was it worth it? Was that five minutes of relaxation (you know while I was working my bowels in a massive hurry) worth this?
Then I clicked to leave a comment and you comment box popped up to tell me — ME — I am limited to 3,000 characters. Well now I feel a challenge has been issued. Right now I am at 642.
I won’t fill the whole box, but this is fun. It taps into my competitive spirit and I like that. Thanks for hopping by my pad. You are going in my Google Reader!
She see’s her older sister get money from the Tooth Fairy. I think she’s ready to start pulling them herself.
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