May I please have a show of hands to all those blessed people who have children................
Now may I have a show of hands of all the people who have been embarrassed by those blessed children.....
My guess is that the same number of hands went up for both questions. Lets face, they are wonderful little people who bring much joy to our lives, but there are also moments, many of them, where they also bring much embarrassment. Like for instance in echoing bathrooms.
Gorgeous day with family and friends, checking out the beautiful landscapes of Yosemite park. Ethan suddenly makes it known to all, and I mean all that a bathroom is needed. Now most of the time I can hand that one off to Jeremiah, men do men things together is my theory, but I also needed to make a trip to the outhouse. Have you ever been in a park outhouse? They have this great feature that echoes everything you say and do, with an added bonus of super thin walls and vents up at the top. So we get our business done, now I usually do not go with my son in the same room, if I can help it, but here we were and so I just try and be discreet. Now another show of hands.....are there any moments in history that a child has been discreet? If so, I would love to know of it and how it was accomplished. Cause it seems to me that the more that I try the worse it gets. So in trying to be discreet, my wonderful little guy blurts out............"how come you have hair on your bottom?" ( just a side note we have not breached the wide and dangerous chasm of actual scientific names yet, so the whole area is a bottom and that is good by me)
So in my motherly trying to avoid the subject type way I try to lead him onto other things, but as flighty as their attention span may be, it never is when you want it to be, so a little louder it is commented on again and this time I just resort to ssshshhhhing. Task accomplished we head out of out echoing, paper thin walled bathroom and lo and behold there is a man standing with the biggest grin you ever saw........
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