BOGOF = Blog once get one free.
You might have noticed that I didn't blog last night. I fell asleep on the sofa last night and didn't wake up until this morning. Good thing that I have today off work cause there wasn't an alarm clock in the living room. So, today... you get 2 blogs for the price of one.
I baby sat my niece again last night, along with my 13 year old cousin. Grandpa treated us girls to a special dinner. We went to every child's favorite restaurant, McDonald's. Inexpensive food and entertainment all rolled into one. Leah ate her fries, drank her diet coke, and ran off to play in the giant play structure. Ok, admission time... I played in the structure with Leah and Daina (my cousin) and loved it. We climbed all through it, spun the spinning wheel, (A circle that goes round and round according to Leah) did the maze, and played peekaboo with each other through the windows. We had the place to ourselves and did whatever we wanted.
It was a welcome break from reality. No ringing phones, no deadlines, and no traffic. Just us girls having fun! Who says you have to act your age all the time? Sometimes you just need to go back to being a kid again.
1 comment:
I saw this today and it reminded me of your post! :-)I'm glad you all had a fun time at McDonald's.
Hilary
I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.
I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a four star restaurant.
I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and make a sidewalk with rocks.
I want to think M&Ms are better than money because you can eat them.
I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's day.
I want to return to a time when life was simple; when all you knew were colors, multiplication tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't know and you didn't care.
All you knew was to be happy because you were blissfully unaware of all the things that should make you worried or upset.
I want to think the world is fair. That everyone is honest and good.
I want to believe that anything is possible. I want to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be overly excited by the little things again.
I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork, depressing news, how to survive more days in the month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills, gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.
I want to believe in the power of miles, hugs, a kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the imagination, mankind, and making angels in the snow.
So ... here's my checkbook and my car keys, my credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am officially resigning from adulthood.
And if you want to discuss this further, you'll have to catch me first, cause ... "Tag! You're it."
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