Tinaree

Every day I take the kids to school and every day as they got out of the care and allowed me to kiss their cheek I would say, “Go change the world”. I do this because it is an actual challenge…and certainly one worth striving for…much more so than; having fun, making good grades, be nice, don’t eat your bugers, don’t hit, blah, blah, blah. While all of these are noteable goals, they should go without saying.

So, when the kids got a little older and they were separted by schools they heard the goodby challenge twice. I din’t think they even heard me anymore as their ears have oddly become immune to the sound of my voice. These days they only recognize the words, money, McDonalds, Wii, and yes. But alas, I always bid them adeiu the same way.

Two weeks before school ceased in honor of summer I drove the girl to school and got the obligatory cheek lean, so that I might kiss her face and not muss her hair or her lip gloss. I challenged her to change the world, and with a flip of her perfectly straight glistening blonde mane she was out the door already engaged in the 5th grade 8am social scene.

Then it came time to release the boy to third grade.
he doesn’t willingly take kisses to the face…he offers a head bow, so that I may kiss the top of his head. This is how he takes his kisses…whatever.
He got of the car and smiled and stood there staring at me for a while. “What”? I say. He says “Don’t forget to change the world today Mom.” And he was off, like Batman if Batman were a skinny little red headed kid in baggie camo shorts and Romones T-shirt.

How cool…changing the world, we are, one morning at a time.

I need to make time to be silly again, like when they were small. We must have more ladybug hunts and late night icecream runs. We need to unplug the television and sit in the shade wit ha deck of cards. We need to revisit the game of Life.

I need to let bedtime be delayed and share more secrets and psooibly regrets so that they will share with me too. I need to explore the possiblity of bartering with M&Ms.

I need to laugh with the kids more….

not because he will be starved or something if he doesn’t….then id just ending being another (She-John)
pbfht- that should actually take away from the list.