September 12, 2005
MY. MOM.
Older Sister (O.S., for the purpose of me being lazy and not wanting to type so many, many letters), owner of my trippy and talented Nephew, is one of those Moms that other Moms secretly resent.
This is her To Do List for a typical day:
1. Play computer learning games with Nephew.
2. Play board games with Nephew.
3. Hunt, capture and study disgusting bugs with Nephew.
4. Build Eiffel Tower out of popsicle sticks in living room.
5. Re-enact Civil War with Star Wars toys from Burger King.
Long story short -- this broad is a hands-on Mom. (Jesus, I'm getting tired just writing this.)
O.S.'s Husband (the O.S.H.) is hands-on, too, but to a somewhat lesser extent, since someone has to earn the money to pay for the field trip to visit the Colosseum.
In school on Friday, Nephew's class was told to draw pictures of their family members doing whatever it is that they do.
Nephew drew a very touching picture of he and O.S.H. holding hands and smiling. It was him and his Daddy playing and having fun, which is so adorable, I can't even make fun of it. (Remember this moment -- it doesn't happen often.)
And THIS is what he drew for O.S.:
Can you believe that?! First childbirth, now THIS?! God, it's like he's begging not to be allowed to taking Driver's Ed!
Nephew, for God's sake, she's building you a hang-glider in the garage so you can take arial photographs for your scrapbook! PUT DOWN THE CRAYONS AND BACK AWAY!
Although I kinda love how he uses blog-speak for the title:
MY. MOM. CAN. CLEAN.
And my sister, God bless her -- she just said, "Well, at least he thinks I clean the house!"
Comments
I saw a girl in a bar last night and I said, "Wow, I bet that girl can CLEAN."
Posted by: Fresh at September 13, 2005 06:25 AM
Clean? Isn't that some kind of foreign word? Like maybe Aborigines or Mayan or Basque or something? I swear I've heard it before, but I just can't quite place it....
Posted by: Queen of Ass at September 13, 2005 09:14 AM
That was awesome.
Posted by: MamaQ at September 13, 2005 10:00 AM