Cleverness and Kid Update

Cleverness and Kid Update
By jade rogue

I wondered of what I would begin this post. I thought to be clever. Then it hit me. Everyone wants to be clever and more so, everyone is clever these days. Then something I read back in my teens rushed up to be remembered. I thought I would share with you another’s thought on cleverness.

On cleverness from... ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’
By Oscar Wilde

Jack: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools.

Algernon: We have.

Jack: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about?

Algernon: The fools? Oh! About the clever people, of course.

Jack: What fools!

Spiky note: I thought it was rather clever of me to even remember this bit of cleverness.
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Update on the kid. He is doing well and near fully recovered. He is back to being loud and talkative. He sang ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ to me this past Saturday morning. He has a stuffed toy that sings it. He calls it his bright star.

He was bad too. He conked his aunt on the head as they sat and played on the couch. She said it was time for him to get in the BAD corner. He said. “I’m sorry…I’m sorry.” Hell it was so convincing an act that I nearly believed it. His aunt of course melted into warm butter. She thought it was so cute. He wanted me to fix his Woody (toy story) toy. It would say “I have a snake in my boot.” or anything else when he pulled Woody’s string. The batteries were drained and I promised we would get some batteries today.

He was a tad angry with me. I walked into the kitchen and accidentally kicked his car under the kitchen table. He said. “Mommy!” he then stood up and walked past me and as he walked past he smack me on the ass with his open hand. He surprised me (It didn’t hurt) he got his car from under the table and stood and walked past me again…

I thumped him on his head. He squinted up at me in a little bit of pain and…he told on me. “MOM…mommy hurt me!” He walked off looking to find his other mom. “Go tell your mom. I’m not afraid of her…she’s a shrimp.”

From the laundry room she yells out… “What did you do to him?”

“Nothing…he…he…maybe he tripped over his own shoe lace.”

Hehehehe…I’m a stinker huh?
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The prince:
Autumn has brought many colors to the back yard. These are days to remember. These are times I want to hold to. And I won’t let a day slip by. I want to be able to recall…like with my eldest. We had walked on a beach in Oregon and he ran with mirth, me chasing him. Kids don’t think their parents can run. I was in my twenties with a short black gamine haircut in those days. He thought I was old though he had seen me play league softball and beach volleyball.

On that beach in Oregon he stopped running and pointed at two girls running to the water, they had taken their tops off. My son to this day remembers that day and not because of the topless girls but because of the fun we had on that beach. We flew kites and we had a picnic.
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The little guy:
The leaves that hang upside down on the trees have released their hold and now many lie on a carpet of green. The leaves of orange, reds, yellow and gold, rest against the tall brick wall in the western end of the property. My little man likes to jump in the piles of autumn leaves.

Yeah I’d get in trouble with his other mom for letting him get dirty on the leaves but we brushed off as much of the broken leafs as we could. Um…I jumped on the leaves too. The little shrimp put leaves in my hair so I could look pretty. After he put s few in my hair I asked him if I looked pretty. He nodded and said. “Pretty mommy.” He grabbed a handful to take to his other mommy.

Sweeties, I sometimes think I say too much. I shared with you my fears and you were there with hand out for me to hold. It helped me through. Sweeties, it is a great relief to see him as the little rough 2-1/2 year old he was before. There were many readers that said he would bounce back quickly…and he has.

Thank you my friends. I saw this movie the other night...I tell you I could really use some dolls right now. :)

Come live with me and be my love, if only for a day...come live with me and see my love...how fast it fades away.