Best shot magic marker Monday
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Around this time of year, we make one of those 'thanksgiving trees.' For those unfamiliar with this American tradition, the children are given a tree with half a dozen leaves. They write on the leaves explaining what things, if any, they are thankful for. This simple, yet frightfully jolly good idea, appealed to my psyche. The reality however, was far from successful. One of my children had an aversion to the texture of paper. Both of them believed that all writing implements were tools of torture. I overcame the former objection by using foamies. The later was overcome but submitting myself to the role of scribe. All I needed then was to extricate suggestions. Most of the suggestions fell into the general category of 'nuffink.' When really pushed, or rather persuaded, they might manage 'Thomas' or Pachycephalosaurids, dependent upon which developmental stage they were at, by otherwise, it was an uphill struggle. I usually gave up after approximately seven minutes.
Every year they have managed more leaves. This year we made paper ones. This year they both wrote on the paper leaves themselves. We were still done in 7 minutes flat, but now they can tolerate 420 seconds of tedium. As I recap the glue I notice that my son has written an abbreviation on his leaf, an unfamiliar one.
“What does T P stand for dear?”
“Toilet paper.”
“You're thankful for toilet paper? But you only use flushable wipes, very expensive flushable wipes I might add!”
“Yes.”
“So……why then?”
“It's a joke stoopid!”
“!”
Ooo the irony.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:08 am
The first thing on Sweetums’s “I’m thankful for” list this year was Cat. Jay and I were #2. LOL.
November 24th, 2008 at 6:29 am
and you are thankful they used paper and wrote their own ….and i suspect even for leaf cutter ants…
November 24th, 2008 at 10:02 am
So he just TP’d your tree? heheheh
Love this monday post Maddy. I think J has an assignment from school to write on a turkey what he is thankful for, we’ll see if he can attend to it.
November 24th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
OMGosh! How funny! Toilet paper! hahaha
LOVE that you make the trees ith the kids! Great tradition
November 24th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I love that idea…I might have to borrow it!
November 24th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
you get called stoopid and I get called a freak, our kids sure have a way with sweet nothings.
November 24th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
LOL! Oh, my goodness! What a great project to do with the kids, though. We’re going to try a similar one where we write the things we’re thankful for on turkey feathers…
Happy Thanksgiving.
November 25th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I love how they get the joke! They couldn’t tell you what irony is, but they know its funny. My 6 y.o. will laugh at a TV commercial. He can’t express WHY he thinks it’s funny, but it turns out, it’s irony that makes him laugh, too, stoopid.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
What a great idea! I love his joke too, how cool
. We just had another frustrating discussion earlier today with one of my sons about jokes, he takes everything seriously and when you tell him you were just joking, he says (annoyed), “why didn’t ya say that?”