GASP!
See, in Mrs. Wiebe's Kindergarten class, behavior is monkey-based; each day Ben starts with three monkeys and, if he keeps all three, he colors in a green day on his calendar. If one monkey is taken for some sort of naughtiness, he has a yellow day. Two, orange; three, red. After that...well, I shudder to think.
So, his yellow day, after a month of green, had us talking about a topic I know well: making mistakes.
He asked if I made mistakes and, since I couldn't describe 1994-2003 within the four-minute ride home, I went with: "Well Ben, I broke a frame at the store today."
Roman offered his: Letting Reno eat his pb&j for the millionth time (my paraphrasing, of course).
Even Anthony offered his mistake over the phone: deleting an important file from his computer.
Anyway, all this talk about mistakes - and the fact that I can't stop making dumb ones lately - makes me think I ought to get a jumpstart on my...
Potential New Year's Resolutions List, 2012
- I shall check pockets before washing clothes. I thought washing a crayon was the worst. Turns out, washing and drying a box of crayons is the worst.
- I shall limit kid snacking, else Ben will have permanent digestive problems from the box of fig bars he ate while I was in the shower.
- Speaking of the shower, I shan't take such hot ones that the steam sets off the fire alarm. Not just the smoke detector, folks, but the full-on, fire-department-dispatched house alarm.
- I shall properly dress children for cold weather school days. Fleece pull-overs on 30-degree days make me look like the kind of mom who'd wash crayons and let kids overdo it on the figs.
- I shall mail birthday cards on time (sorry, Kari, and happy belated birthday!).
- I shall better remember people's names. Because Frederic at work did not like being called Franklin all these months.
- And, finally...FitnessQuest 2012 shall finally come to fruition, since it actually started as FitnessQuest 2000.
