Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup? The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all die. So do we. And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living. Think what a better world it would be if we all -- the whole world -- had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together. ~ Robert Fulghum ~

Saturday, January 6, 2007

Christmas 2006


Okay all of you know that my children do not sleep. They don't sleep as babies and they still don't sleep very much. We don't wake up later than 6 ever!!!!!
But guess what, on Christmas morning they slept. What is that? That was not going to work for Patrick and I however. We woke them up when we woke up. No it was not payback... we couldn't wait to see their little faces when they saw their gifts! Anna was thrilled to see her fully equipped dollhouse, (which Patrick swears I bought for myself), Jack was more excited about his books than his train set, and Alec was very excited about the gift wrap, bows and trash all over the floor! We had a wonderful Christmas, and between Santa and family the kids were spoiled as always. Anna and Jack were very cute on Christmas eve, they were playing in the living room where the tree was. We came in there and Anna had moved the fire place screen out of the way because she was very concerned Santa would not be able to get his bag out. Jack was more concerned that Santa was going to burn his "booty" on the logs. "Booty" is a favorite word around our house these days. By the way, for Santa's snack, the kids left him a Capri Sun and a Hello Kitty poptart.
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