I started on a piece today about how rude I felt
every person I met today had been and then decided that was just not the
direction for today’s writing. So I tossed it into the lucky file number
thirteen and changed direction.
I wanted instead to encourage and positively reinforce
the human race. I hope I can do that. Nope not today. I then thought I might
try my skills at writing my novel; that came out as another nope. So what can I
write about? It is not as if I have writers block for here I sit typing away editing
as I go. But still no exciting topic to titillate my readers.
The silence of my home even with my children off
school is almost eerie. I know they are glued to some pre-teen show that the
eldest has controlled to watch. And now I wonder about dinner and my thoughts
change I am not hungry. I had to throw out food from the weekend. I hate to
waste anything but food is a big pet peeve. After all I grew up knowing that
there were many starving children in the world who would be happy for that
scrap. Yeah okay Mom and Dad, do those children know that it is rotten or on
its way to be rotten and will make them ill? Or do they know that I have had
the flu for five days and I am still highly infectious??? Ha…that one would get
them every time. They would concede and that small scrap would hit the garbage
like a basketball being sunk by a pro!!!
Now that I am a parent I know where mine were coming
from with the finish your meal business. We pay for that food and wasting is
not allowed. I started with smaller portions to try and alleviate that
non-sense in our home, but yet here I sit today at my computer telling you I
have just wasted food. I dumped what was worth of about five sandwiches into
the garbage and let me tell you there was no basketball star involved. It
plunked its way into the can and laid there as if it was mocking me for its
last moment before I closed the lid. Yeah…okay…
So with the children off school and the holiday
weekend behind us we are beginning the summer with a quiet day. We went
shopping and yes were the rudeness was abundant, but I do not want to discuss
that. I have on my mind that ever popular question “What to do with them for
the rest of the summer?” We are not camp people, although I went for several
years and had some great experiences I just do not see the benefit of paying
over one thousand dollars for a week in the company of strangers. Not that
camps do not have merit. The activities and experiences can be outstanding for
children and for young adults as counsellors. I have some fond memories of camp
and maybe some not so fond but all-in-all good. So back to my question, what do
I do with them?
Well we have already talked about the usual trip
into the city to go to places like the Planetarium, Museum, Science Centre etc.
But I am yet to come up with that all mind blowing remember it always event. We
will need to return to that at a later date. Watch it be a very low key event
that takes the number one spot!!!
Well “What’s for dinner?” I better go and coordinate
that before the silence is broken by the ever popular “I’m hungry” whine.
To be continued…
