Hooked on Phonics Worked for Me!; 31 for 21

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I think I have a problem. The kids are both at school this morning and I am having a ridiculously difficult time just taking it easy. I really feel like I need a breather, and yet, I have this opportunity and I can't relax. I keep checking my to-do lists thinking maybe I should get to something while I have the time. And, it's not like I am actually even doing "nothing." I am tackling the things on my list that require very little effort and that I don't actually mind and kind of enjoy. Like writing here.

And yet. I am thinking about that stuff. Watching the clock tick down the minutes.

Let's change gears.

A funny:

The other day Rainer was asking Alex to draw pictures of various things on the magnadoodle as he is wont to do. Alex was pulling out the stops with his best renditions of circles and diamons and letter 'Ts', when Rainer suggested that Alex "draw a ponics, Daddy!"

"A ponics??" Alex questioned.

"Yes, draw a ponics!" Rainer said as if Alex was the silliest man around.

"What IS a ponics, Rainer?" Alex inquired.

"Like 'Skuh!' or 'Pluh!'" Rainer answered.

"Oooooooooooooooooooh!" Alex (and later I when Alex retold the story) replied.

And he draw the letters 'Sk' and 'Pl' like his little boy asked him to.

And the little boy was filled with glee.

The End

Comments

[RK]

I'm telling you... R and K would be a HOOT to see together! In those situations around here, it would have included her saying, "Daaad" (with disdain), "He is saying Fffffonics. Didn't you hear him?" And then she would walk off like she owned the world and just had helped end hunger in one fell swoop. Mercy...