Forgot: Cute things they say
Sep 21, 2005 Parenting
Noah and I drove by the old house to see if UPS left anything (nope) and we both got sad and former-homesick. To cheer us up I said we should name the good things about this house, our new house. But Noah couldn’t come up with anything beyond his room being bigger (a fact which he said is rendered null by the loss of the fabulous — indeed it was fabulous — playroom). I said he liked the longer cement drive, right? (He’s been spending a lot of time out there scraping up various body parts riding his scooter down it.) He said it didn’t count because that was outside the house.
“And you know the other bad thing?” he asked me. “That taunting playground that I can hardly use. It just sits there taunting me.”
Imagine the horror of the taunting schoolyard playground!
September 22nd, 2005 at 1:18 am
Poor Noah. Moving can be so fun and exciting (well, not the actual moving part, but you know what I mean) but so heartbreaking at the same time. I still sometimes get homesick for the house I lived in in Santa Cruz, during my third year of uni. The sunny back verandah, all the yellow flowers in the garden… and of course the lifestyle that allowed me many house of lazing around on said verandah!
Actually you know what? I think I am transposing those flower from where I went to uni in Adelaide, S.Australia. Well, you get the idea.
I hope Noah (and you) will be just so happy in the new house that the other one soon fades to a distant memory.
September 22nd, 2005 at 4:32 pm
And he can’t use the taunting playground much because other kids show up most of the time?
P.S. Hi Kay - I happen to be in Santa Cruz.
September 22nd, 2005 at 5:11 pm
hehe that is cute. Poor Noah, he really doesn’t like change does he?
I hope the playground stops taunting him soon and lets him play like a crazy-kid.