This week Lovergies visited us. We were so busy we mostly ignored him. Except when we needed him to take The Princess to school,
or wrestle with The Pirate,
or carry The Pixie,
or spend hours next to the fire pit burning debris as Mr. Right and I ripped a trail through the blackberry bushes we call our forest,
or when I needed him to help me shop with my bugs at a huge enormous warehouse,
or (worst case scenario) when I was driving down the freeway and The Pirate was loudly proclaiming his full bladder, so Lovergies had to lean over behind the co-pilot seat and hold a plastic bottle for The Pirate to pee in.
Other than that we left him alone.
Makes you want to visit eh?
Oh and then there was the time that I was meeting with some very fine ladies. Lovergies had to tend to my bugs and a guest child in the playroom.
You may not believe it but my bugs are very attached to their personal belongings...especially when guest children come over.
Usually I say, "You don't want to share? Fine, then that plastic shape and whatever else you don't want to share needs to go in time out until the guests go home.
That is the point when they drag their toybox, pillows and bedspreads downstairs and relinquish it all to the protection of time out. I suspect they'd drag the furniture if they could manage it.
Such was the case while Lovergies protected the guest child from The Pixie's wrath. She was defending The Pirates choice to not share.
Finally The Pirate was relegated by himself to a corner with his bin of cars.
Lovergies had to ask him, "Are you happy? "
Yes.
"You are all alone in the corner with your toys, are you really happy? "
Yes.
"But if you had shared with Josh then you could play with him and now you are alone."
Yes and a thoughtful pause Lovergies?
"Yes."
Are you happy?
"Of course, yes."
But you are alone in the corner with your laptop.
Later I told Lovergies I had one hour before I needed to go to bed.
He replied, "Well, I guess at some point you need to go to bed might as well be in an hour." He must have thought about it because he added, "Plus you need to go to bed so you can get up when your children get up and you not be tired. "
Yes. I agreed. They do get up early. That is the problem with children.
"Ohhhhhhh ho ho" he said knowingly, "That's not the only problem with children."
He is wise for one who doesn't have children of his own.
Though I suspect he was implying it is not just a problem that they get up early, but that they get up at all.
And some mornings he would be right.