Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.

It was a pretty good day today.  I pretty much loafed around and spent time with my family.  Will and I took a good nap this afternoon.  I haven't had a good nap with my baby for a while.  He was really snuggly this afternoon so when I took him up for a nap, we made a detour to mommy's room!  He snuggled right up and went to sleep and so did I!  Ahhhhh I love snuggly babies...well, even if he is now an official toddler...he's definately a mommy's baby.

 

I read some more of my book and this evening I baked some chocolate chip cookies for Rich to take to work with him tomorrow.  But I must say that the most interesting thing that happened today had to do with a little discussion we had with our kids.  Good grief, this is crazy!

 

Last night, Rich and I were in the laundry room kissing.  Don't ask...hey...we have three kids and you have to get your loving when you can!  Anyway...

 

As I said we were kissing and enjoying one another's company for a minute when the laundry room door busted open and we turned around.  However, there was no one there.  The only one in our house who is that quick is Miss Klara.  We walked out into the living room and Klara was crying.  She said that I had hurt her feelings and when I asked her why she said because I was kissing her daddy.  Alrighty then!

 

Rich and I discussed this last night and decided that Jared had put her up to it.  Jared will be seven years old in March and we think he is getting wise to the whole birds and bees subject.  So, today, we question him as to whether he put Klara up to going into the laundry room.  He denied it but he has this face he makes when he is lying and we knew he wasn't being truthful.

 

He then pipes up and says, "I know what you all were doing in there!"

 

oh really now...???

 

"Yeah, you all were sexing!"

 

Oh my word!  I vehemently started denying it and he kept laughing and giggling and saying, "you all were sexing in there yes you were!"

 

And just what *is* sexing, there, Romeo?

 

"Sexing is when you take your clothes off and kiss each other!"  Jared says.  He then gets his MAGNADOODLE out and says he will draw us a picture. 

 

WHAT?!!

 

We wait patiently while he giggles and draws.  When he is done, we see something that looks like two stick figures kissing...one has two circles on it's chest representing boobies, I suppose, and the other has what I thought was a box over his groin. 

 

"What is that box thing, there, son?" 

 

"Oh, that's Daddy in his shorts!"

 

Oh Good Lord!

 

So I finally gritted my teeth and asked him...where did you get all of this knowledge from?  School? 

 

No....from the neighbor girl...who got it from another 12 year old neighbor girl who isn't allowed to visit anymore.  Lovely. 

 

I told him that, first of all, kissing and sexing are two totally different things.  He says, "well what is sexing?"  I told him that sexing was for married people and that unless he was planning a wedding we weren't aware of soon, it was on a need-to-know basis and he didn't need to know.   Rich, Mr. Nurse, just sat in the recliner reading his novel and muttering, "let's just drop the subject."

 

I later told him that I was wrong and that sexing was when we looked at kittens or baby chicks and tried to figure out what they were...girls or boys.  Ha!

 

I think I handled that well, don't you? 

By: Alice Meadows