Josh has a toybox in our great room. The box is the catcher-of-all-things. A Box of Holding, for you D&D fans. Mary Poppin’s carpetbag for others. You get the drift, it seems bottomless. So, this morning, I was on the computer, working on some Scout stuff, and I become aware that he is digging in the toy box, which is behind me. I check over my shoulder, and I can only see him from the waist down. The entire top half of his body is in the toybox, and he’s digging like there’s no tomorrow. I hear him muttering to himself:
“I’ll find it if I keep praying the same damn thing.”
I’m not sure I hear him correctly. I don’t want to believe I heard him correctly, so I asked him to repeat himself. He does, still buried in the toy chest:
“I’ll find it if I keep praying the same damn thing!”
“Joshua!!” I said, a bit indignant. My child was swearing, after all. Out in the open!! “Stand up and face me!” He does. “Did you just say, ‘I’ll find it if I keep praying the same damn thing’?”
He smirks, because he knows that I just said a bad word, and he’s a little proud that I thought HE was brave enough to say it.
“NO, Mom,” he says, exasperated. “I said, I’ll find it if I keep praying to St. Anthony!”
oops.
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Your turn… what’s your best “oops” moment, or misunderstanding?
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HAHAHAHHA that made me laugh!!!!!!!!! umm I guess I don’t have anything to say on this one, yet!
Oh, I am sure I have those moments more often than I care to remember. Most recently, my kids have been on some kind of a fake brat-noise kick. Which really doesn’t say much for their intelligence, particularly when I’m not close to my drug of choice (coffee). So once in a while they will be doing their fake “wah” or whatever, and I’m getting ready to go off on them, when I realize they are just messing around. Irritating!
I remember when my kids were wee tots, and Miss E was big into animal sounds. We’d be all happy and suddenly she’d make this crabby whiney noise, and I’d say “stop whining! whining is bad!” Eventually I realized that this always happened right after I said “what sound does an elephant make?” So that was her version of an elephant noise.
Don’t suppose you want to tell Josh that Dead Robert isn’t St. Robert simply because Dead Anthony got more votes than he did?
Damn St. Anthony.
I don’t get into church politics ever since they demoted St. Christopher. Who am I supposed to have standing on my dashboard now?
Who ever you have on your dashboard make sure they are facing the traffic and not the interior of the vehicle!!
I usually duct tape them upside down, with their backsides facing traffic. That way, if they have a “wardrobe malfunction”, they’re mooning the driver that I”m cussing at!
I can’t remember now if it was Trinity or Christopher who everyone thought was saying the ‘f’ word when what they were really saying was fork!
That was pretty funny!!!! I can imagine his little grin too!
I don’t know if I have any stories like this. I’ll have to think about it-and right now, it’s too early for that.
My mind leaves me blank on this. This is why every parent should write stuff like this down. Memories fade sometimes and stuff like this is so cute. I know we mispronounced a lot of stuff and that always brought chuckles but that whole conversation is super cute.
BTW, how do they demote a Saint?
Apparently, St. Christopher was never an “official” Saint. He was a Saint in Name Only, having never been officially “venerated”/”canonized”/recognized as a saint by the Vatican. The Catholic Church started Canonizing somewhere around the 10th Century.
Well, according to what I read, he was a legendary figure that had all these stories attached to him, and over the years, Christopher gained the ‘reputation’ of a Saint. He lived around the 3rd Century, and was killed, a martyr for the Christians. Many legends were attributed to him, and I guess everyone just *thought* he had been Canonized. Well, several years ago, during a general “inventory” of Saints, it was discovered that Christopher was never *actually* canonized. So they bumped him from the Calendar, and no longer celebrate his Feast.
I don’t think anybody cares, though. I still hear Catholic Friends refer to St. Christopher. Seems to me, if you’ve held the title in good standing – even if it was conferred by the people instead of some Pope – since about the FOURTH CENTURY, you deserve to keep it in perpetuity.