My extremely brilliant children have discovered the cure for insomnia. It isn’t a long, hot bath as Paul Harvery once advised has the same effect as a sleeping pill. No! Not at all! It is simply this: crawl into bed with your mother and lodge your feet in the small of her back.
Works. Like. A. Charm.
You’ll drift right off.
A few nights ago, my daughter used this technique with great success. Last night, my son mastered it.
This morning, I want a long, hot bath.
Of course, my son was the first up because he got the most sleep.
“Mom!” he called out from my side of the gigantic bed, “It’s your boy!”
And I cracked my eyes open and looked at him… he was beaming, waiting for me to be thrilled to see him. He is, after all (in his own words), amazing.
Well, I am actually training him for amazingness. Take this, for instance: I’ve been teaching him how to take out the trash so I won’t have to anymore (and since *cough* his dad *cough* doesn’t do it *cough* as often as his wife would like).
Train a child up in the way that he should go, and he will not depart from it, right?
Speaking of training for amazingness, here’s a quick picture of my cousin, Karly. Her Dad is our Dentist, and I was teasing her on Sunday… telling her that the tiger needed his teeth pulled so he wouldn’t be scary anymore. She believed me and took the tweezers I offered her. She was determined to pull those teeth, and I’ll be DANGED if she wasn’t smiling in determination while she tugged on the teeth.
I don’t exactly think playing video games at a very young age qualifies for amazingness training, but some people might. Some people like my little brother Jim.
THIS is what definitely qualifies for amazingness training:
I call it Farm Boy Wielding Shovel. True cell phone camera art, courtesy of my husband.
And lastly… what sort of amazing would he be without movie-watching training? It’s definitely a MUST in our family tree.
I have high hopes for my trainee. I think he’ll turn out a million times more amazing than pretty much everyone else… especially with that shovel.
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