Monday, March 28, 2005
of infants and a game of hangman
my husband and i have meet two new people in the last week or so. one of them was born 3 weeks ago and the other was born about 3 days ago. they are the most beautiful and perfect little human beings on the planet!it is a strange place to be in the timeline of my life as i watch people that i have known since high school become parents.
i am not quite ready to participate in this miracle myself, but i am very happy to be the favorite "auntie" who spoils all of my friend's children rotten.
along the same lines . . . easter sunday was yesterday. this event included a trip down to have easter dinner with my family and some family friends. it wasn't going that bad actually until the little ones decided it would be fun to have a group game of hangman. it was cute for a while, especially when it came to their spelling abilities.
and then came the final puzzle of the afternoon (keep in mind, everyone was playing and everyone saw this puzzle). it looked like this:
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ / _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Then it looked like this:
T _ _ I T _ _ / I S / N O T / P _ E _ N I T
and then u realized what it was supposed to say . . . in her poor spelling the sweet child was communicating to everyone:
T A B I T H A / I S / N O T /P R E G N I T!
what an awkward moment for me! what if she had been wrong? thank god she wasn't! but it was still the most awkward moment of the day. even more awkward than the moment earlier in the day when a family friend had approached my husband and told him how he had stolen his girl by marrying me and made him promise to be good to me and blah blah blah. this guy had never had a chance with me! why would he say things like that?
anyway, moral of the story: don't mention pregnancy to newlyweds unless they bring it up first, beware of the power of hangman in the hands of the young, and spoil other people's children, not your own.
say it don't spray it 10:29 AM
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