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Oatmeal Kisses
I read this many years ago and I am still encouraged to enjoy my children every time I read it.
Mar 04 2003 |
 
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The baby is teething. The children are fighting.
Your husband just called and said, “Eat dinner without me.”
One of these days you’ll explode and shout to the kids,
“Why don’t you grow up and act your age?” And they will.
Or: “You guys get outside and find yourselves something to do.
And don’t slam the door!” And they don’t.
You’ll straighten their bedrooms all neat and tidy, toys displayed on the shelf, hangers in the closet, animals caged.
You’ll yell, “Now I want it to stay this way!” And it will.
You will prepare a perfect dinner with a salad that hasn’t had all the olives picked out and a cake with no finger traces in the icing, and you’ll say: “Now THIS is a meal for company.” And you will eat it alone.
You’ll yell, “I want complete privacy on the phone. No screaming.
Do you hear me?” And no one will answer.
No more plastic tablecloths stained with spaghetti. No more dandelion bouquets.
No more iron-on patches. No more wet, knotted shoelaces, muddy boots, or rubber bands for ponytails.
Imagine. A lipstick with a point. No baby sitter for New Year’s Eve, washing clothes only once a week, no silly meetings or childhood plays where your child is a tree.
No carpools, blaring stereos, forgotten toys and books.
No more Christmas presents made of library paste and toothpicks. No wet oatmeal kisses. No more tooth fairy.
No more giggles in the dark, scraped knees to kiss, or sticky fingers to clean.
Only a voice asking: “Why don’t you grow up?”
And the silence echoes: “I DID.”
Author Unknown
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