The older my children get, I find myself...with increasing frequency, starting sentences with a phrase I thought I’d never say: “When I was your age…” Yup, nothing says you’re old like those words, which have been uttered by old people since the Industrial Revolution.
Usually, “when I was your age” serves as a cop-out for my cheapness. I say things like, “When I was your age, I only had two shoes” (commonly known as one pair), or “When I was your age, we only had four channels, and one of them was in French.”
But there is one statement that I wish to shout from a roof top. It is: “When I was your age, the toys were better.” If you look at some of the top toys on this years Christmas wish lists, you see cheap plastic crap that I am loathe to buy for Lochlan.
I miss the toys of my childhood, all of which I wish my parents still had. Yes, with five children, had they kept our toys, they would now have a moderate-sized toy collection, a Narnia closet leading to Fisher Price Land, that would …
I really dislike hugs! I feel like people are invading my personal space and it is very uncomfortable :)
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of hugs but yeah, that first one must have been awkward!
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SOOOO true!
ReplyDeleteI used to not be a hugger...it would make me so uncomfortable when it came time to say good-bye and the awkward moment of "do we hug? do we not hug? I'm not hugging unless they lean in for it first." But now, I love hugs. I guess it just took me some time to get used to it since I didn't grow up in a "huggy-type" of family. What a lovely invention.
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