Thursday, November 29, 2007 - Fresh Perspective...
This past holiday weekend, after the leftovers were put away for at least a couple of hours, we embarked upon The Raising and Decorating Of The Tree. This endeavor involved many boxes, a pair of scissors,lots of 'watch out,coming through!' calls and a few dusty sneezes to boot as we brought the Christmas decorations down from the bonus room in the garage. In order to Raise said Tree, our living room had a to be rearranged just a bit. Now, during the week, my living room is full of toys and five wee babysittin' babes in addition to my own two tween/teen hooligans. It's a nice big room--and still quite full lol.
In order to facilitate and maintain the Raising and Decorating project,I decided to put away most of the toys the wee ones are privileged to play with, keeping out only likely recalled soon items Legos and a Fisher Price farm set complete with only half the fifty zillion animals/people/cars. And wouldn't you know that when the babies returned on Monday,after the awe and wonder of the Tree upon first sight, they have played with the few toys I left out like they were given brand new novelty items. I know this about kids, I've pulled this trick in the past on my own two hooligans but, at 14 and 12, it's been awhile. I have shaken my head in amazement that I could have forgotten how HARD wee ones will play when toys presented in a new way or in smaller amounts. Not to mention there's more room to admire The Decorated Tree, which I do so love to admire and enjoy.
Fresh perspective is apparently refreshing if you're 14 months old, 2 years old or 37 years old even older.
I totally get that. I, too, think it is funny. I seriously need to go through the toys in the playroom. It seems like there aren't that many because they all have a home and when they are all put away, it looks nice. However, my 21 month old plays this game of seeing if he can manage to get every single toy out at one time. That is when it hits me that we have a lot of toys. So much, in fact, that this year my kids really aren't many toys at all. Now, I'm still getting them things they'll love (like new books for Leap Pads), but I'm trying to steer clear of the toys!!
I accidentally hit enter before I was finished!! I was going to leave my url and name and hit enter instead of shift. I'm still getting used the feel of the laptop keyboard...even though I have had it for several months.
