If you like funny stories about families I think you’ll like this story I wrote for the National Catholic Register. I’m pretty sure you won’t see the ending coming. I know I didn’t.
There are moments that jump out at you as a parent and you know that for some reason this moment will be with you forever. No matter how old and forgetful you get those moments will still be with you.
I remember my two year old telling me to make the car go faster because the moon was chasing us and when we pulled into the parking lot the moon went out of sight behind the strip mall. She said, “I think we lost ‘em.”
March 12, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Wonderful! LOL!
March 12, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Hilarious! I'll never forget the time I left my boys home with my husband so I could go to a Catholic Conference. My son (who has tactile issues and sensitive skin that drives me nuts) was playing in our neighbors sand box with his brother. He decided he didn't like the sand in his clothes, so he did what any logical 7 year old would do, he took them off except his underwear, of course. His brother was with him & seized the opportunity to steal his clothes as the neighbor girls looked out their back window in horror. As if that wasn't enough, the younger brother with the clothes in hand starts chasing the older brother in his underwear and hitting him with the clothes. In an effort to escape my 7 year old decides to lock himself in a dog cage in the neighbors back yard. My husband got a call from the neighbor mother saying, " um, your son is in his underwear in the dog cage in back. I thought you might want to know, ya know, just in case DHS happens to be driving by." (That neighbor has 5 kids, so she was very understanding). When I got home, I had a very sad 7 year old (and a husband who swore he was diligently watching them). I laughed privately for hours.
March 12, 2011 at 8:07 pm
Great story. I read that book last year and I really loved it. Such a great story with so many Catholic themes, and surprisingly for a book of that era even talked about abortion.
March 12, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Another book to add to my summer reading list…but I'm not reading it in the bathroom. My husband does the same thing. I'm certain that he was overjoyed when I purchased the shelves over the toilet. It's where his book of the week is now situated.
I love kids! They are so great at protecting us against arrogance. Nobody who "reads dirty books with little girls on the cover in the bathroom" could ever be stuck on himself.