"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Snippy


Today I have felt snippy. Poor behavior.


My children have taken to playing baby. This entails screaming and whining. Then when I ask them to stop... okay, let's be honest: Then when I snippily tell them to stop they say:


"It's not me, it's the baby."


By the end of the day I was threatening to throw all the babies in the garbage.


Great. I am a parenting queen, I tell you what.


Right now Justin is buying me a Butterfinger Shake. He called to tell me that today was "free fries with your milkshake day".


I am so glad.


I have tried to write a post all day, but I felt too snippy to do so.


But at least you all got to look at a cute picture of GQ.


And at least I get free fries.


With fry sauce.


I leave you with this excellent poem by The Pioneer Woman which describes me to a LARGE T on my snippy day, complete with tongue in cheek:


I'm a dull weed
Choking the spirit of my garden cohabitants
With my prickly shoots.
I hate.
I hate much.
I love although I hate.
My children whither in my noxious shade
Because I won't let them use glitter.
They dream.
They dream much.
Of sparkly planets with glitter moms and painting with their many digits.
Dream on, losers.


Ree, The Pioneer Woman

4 comments:

The Johnson's said...

We all have those days! But I must say that is the cutest picture of GQ yet!

Alyosha said...

That baby is adorable!

Elena Jarvis Jube said...

I had a snippy day, too.

Those days are what Neil Gaiman's book, Coraline is all about, I think. A child horror-story defense of normal parents who won't let their child use glitter (so to speak) but who are so much better than the button-eyed, fake, scary parents. It's tempting some days to say, "Oh, yeah? Well, it could be worse! I could have button eyes!"

I love the poem, too. Perfect.

Laura said...

I have a giant purple tool box full of glitter next to my desk. Every color - red, pink, blue, green, silver, you name it, I have it.
Today I am making sparkling glittery fun foam candy. Maybe I should have E over?