Not often does my extreme BLUE personality (feels deeply with an extra need to be understood) have a run in with my son's extreme YELLOW personality (the need to find the fun and the party in everything). I have enough of a yellow streak in me that I can find the party well enough to hang with the YELLOWS.
Yesterday, I was not so sure.
After school, Chase and I were doing the whole after school routine and were looking over his newly checked out library books. The one on the Titanic opened up this dialogue:
Oh, good choice, Chase! This next month marks the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.
Really?! When?!
I think it's on the 14th of April.
Are we going to have a party?!!
Well, no. This is not really the type of occaision that sparks a huge need to have a party or anything. It is just more of an neat opportunity to remember what happened.
No, I don't mean a BIG party. I could just invite a couple of friends and we could...bob for apples...or something.
Seriously?
Seriously!
* Folks, let's do remember that he is only 8 years old. Morbid and inappropriate are not part of his personality yet. Just the need to be extremely creative and find the fun in everything. While his sometimes-wise mother finds his humor to be very humorous, she also felt the need to show him the appropriate amount of respect surrounding this event. She is, after all, a very BLUE mother raising a very YELLOW boy.
Which is why she felt the need to give this extra explanation.
It never stops.
LEMON CURD
2 months ago
3 comments:
The need to play and the need to be understood, ahhh, the joys of life!
What a funny, funny post. I think his suggestion was very humorous, but the explanation that you felt you had to give after his idea only made it funnier.
Thanks, Jane, for finding the explanation humorous. I thought it made the humor of the whole post come full circle!
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