Frustrations abound, mainly in the single parenting realm. Not with my son, himself. The boy is as rad as ever. The other night we had dinner with a friend before venturing to Stevens Square Park’s Cinema and Civics series. As we walked from the car to the park my son randomly uttered “life’s not fair. Except for vampires.” Man, oh man, is he ever my kid. Not long after that he approached me and very slowly, with gears almost audibly turning in his brain, said “bananas are a fruit…so how are they planted if they don’t have seeds?” An excellent question! One which prompted some googling and led me to learning a new word. Corm.
So the child isn’t the problem in my single parenting scenario. But childcare sure is. I’m paying more now than I did when he was an infant, and the childcare program is only open intermittently over the short summer break. So our schedule is all effed up for the next couple of weeks. I’ve been scrambling to get it sorted. In the meantime I’ve made due by working from home some mornings with the boy and taking him to the office with me some afternoons. And that’s all well and good except it’s got him spending too much time staring at a monitor with headphones on. There will be more than enough of that in his future, I’m sure, so I’d rather limit it now. But while at my desk he did randomly doodle the most amazing shark for me, on a scrap of paper. I’m so taken with it that it may be my next tattoo.
We haven’t left the house today. Because our holiday weekend was a busy one, with lots of running around. But my favorite part? A fairly quiet afternoon that saw just the two of us walking down from our house to the Taste of Minnesota for corn on the cob, Sno-Kones and carny rides.
Bonus: Very few actual moonwalks on eternal moonwalk, but a cute idea, just the same.
Plus: This is so last week, but WCCO did a nice piece on Clockwork’s resident rockstar astronomer.
And: Russian Revolution Zines of 1905! Those reminded me that the Twin Cities Zine Fest is happening this coming weekend, July 11th & 12th, at the Stevens Square Center for the Arts.
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Your kid sounds awesome. He kind of reminds me a bit of Wesley with some of the things you are saying here. I’d love to see his shark drawing! I keep wanting a tattoo, but I’m not sure what, and having a drawing of Wesley’s tattooed on me has popped up in my head a couple times.
That eternal moonwalk is hard to stop watching.
My boy cracks me up! I highly recommend having one of Wesley’s drawings tattooed on your person. You will never regret it.
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