ZOO??????
Yes, that was question of the day from Mateo who will be 4 years old tomorrow. When Cristian is out of town, I let the kids take turn sleeping with me. Not that they are going to be able to save me from the boogy man, but it just helps me sleep better when there is someone else in the opposite corner of my California King. Anyway, as I was clearing off all of the animals from my bed that Sarah had left for me while I was trying to nap earlier today, I mentioned to Mateo that I would go ahead and clean up the zoo so he could have a place to sleep. He looked at me perplexed and then said, "Mami, what's a zoo? What does that mean?" YIKES. Mother of the Year Award goes to MOI. My kid has been to been to Disney's Animal Kingdom at least a couple dozen times that I can think of. But he . . . has . . . NOT . . . been . . .to . . .the . . .zoo . . . since we moved from Sacramento 3 1/2 years ago. And yeah, the last time he was at a zoo he was barely 5 months old so he probably doesn't remember it anyway.
This is kind of a double whammy for me. #1 It brings me to an awareness that maybe I should focus on the SIMPLE things in life . . . like taking my kid to the zoo. And #2 As a former Kindergarten teacher in an inner-city school, I could not BELIEVE the fact that there were actually families with children IN MY CLASSROOM that had NEVER BEEN TO THE ZOO. We lived a hop, skip, and a jump away from the zoo people. Maybe 7 mile car-ride TOPS from my little inner-city school to the zoo. This has just come back to bite me in the judgmental BUTT for giving all those other parents grief for never having given their children such an enriching experience as going to the zoo. Guess where we are going when Cristian gets back from Brazil???????
Monday, December 10, 2007
What is a . . . .
Posted by heidiram at 10:06 PM
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You used my second favorite sweater story?!
I want royalties.
To get back to you - I had the best time last night at Heather's. I know it is hard to be the hostess, but this is from a woman who just relocated and doesn't have a ton of friends/acquaintances in my new town, so it is always great to get together with people you know and love.
About your post - I was a teacher, as well, for 8 years and boy oh boy did I form judgements about some parents. I now believe that is why God gave me the BOYS that He did is to erase all those judgements and give me daily slices of HUMBLE PIE.
What, you don't want to be in the secret blog club? Come on, email me. I keep getting rejected from the earlier email address I had for you.
Nice candy canes. And I'd take Animal Kingdom over the zoo any time.
Come to San Diego, We'll take you to a Zoo!
judgemental teachers unite! it's good to a JT, because that means there's always a parent somewhere who's worse than you are. phew! i'll take that for a buck.
thanks for the heads-up on the pasta sale. i'll rally the troops and load up on the ammo.
yeah, i'm in the secret club. i'm still waiting to learn the secret handshake though, and decide what day we're all going to wear the secret club tshirt together.
tchau menina
judgmental BUTT.
We hit the zoo this weekend. I have scores of pictures to prove it. Now if he didn't know what an animal was, then you might have problems.
You are giving to Gab. Check the blog for the rules!
This may be my favorite blog story ever. Classic youngest child doesn't know what a zoo is. Mommy guilt for centuries.
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