Sand through the hourglass
Technicolor leaves drifting
I am old as dirt
The other day at the dinner table Jo started talking about adjectives and nouns. Jeff and I immediately burst into song: “A noun’s a special kind of word! It’s any name you ever heard, I find it/ Quite interesting, a noun is a person, place, or thing.”
Somehow during the same conversation it came up that she wanted to wear last year’s kitty ears with this year’s “rock star” (NOT Hannah M., thankyouverymuch) Halloween costume. This caused another outburst from the parental units and some quizzical looks from the children.
Thanks to YouTube, we were able to show the children what on earth we were talking about. So I guess them there modern conveniences do have some value.
I can only hope that Jeff and I prove to be like our betta fish, who has dodged Death twice in his four-month stay with us (accidental visit to the garbage disposal; dumped on the floor when bowl broke) and is, in Jo’s words, “a really good liver.”
Sidebar: Yes, my first grader is learning about parts of speech. And geometry. Rock on Montessori with your geo solids and your 3D grammar symbols.
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