...19 (in days gone by)...

  In Days Gone By:

5.October.2022

Parenting:

You plan, and decide, and expect.

You create a series of check-points, of milestones, of goals.

You pour energy into creating rituals and rules.

You spend 10 minutes asking your toddler to put his book on 'the chair',

(the recliner in the background)

even going so far as to stop-drop-swoop

(him up from where he's walked away, ignoring you, dropping the book again)

while picking up Everything Else he's left in his detritus-wake.

You boil...inside...wondering when life ended and this hellish rinse-repeat of cleaning up

The Same Mess

every hour on the hour replaced it.

And then...

'Ta Da!' he says.

Ta Da! Perfect T. Perfect D.

(Speech therapy win, but that's another story.)

Ta Da, and pride and pointing...at The Book...perfectly balanced on The Chair.

(Precision of language, Mami. Buckle up...you're in for another bumpy ride!)

Ta Da!

Here's to Happy Accidents...and being proud of creative rule 'following'!

Never change, Henri!