March 25, 2008

• When you’re done ridding…

  Anna Kathryn doesn’t naturally play creatively. She prefers to color, play with play dough, look at books, watch television, sit on my lap, and other non or semi-creative things. I have to sit down with her and teach her to play with her toys before I ever get a chance to get any work done. She does like stuffed animals, though, and has named them all very simply: “Bear”, “Goose”, “Little Lamb”, “Reindeer”, “Pink Baby”, “Purple Baby”, etc. I’m still waiting for real names. But she has a lot of animals she never touches. I gathered several of these up a couple months ago and put them in my consignment pile.

  This week is my bi-annual Mother’s of Multiples Consignment Sale, and I have all my bags and bins piled up in my living room in various states of being labeled. Anna Kathryn saw a dog in there that used to be ignored on her bed and asked for it. “No,” I said. “I’m getting rid of that.”

  “Okay,” she answered agreeably. I thought I’d just gotten away with it, when she continued, “I’ll have it back when you’re done ridding it, okay, Mommy?”

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