When I grow up

Let’s start with pictures this week and then you can skip my ramblings easier.

This is Lilly holding her drivers license above and then her by herself driving to the school for call time for Matilda. She’s growing up

I have started paying attention to my sourdough starts again. I have a weird relationship with bread so we cycle through feast or famine modes of having it at the house. I also tend to bake more when I am stressed. I must be stressed. 

This picture and the one below were found on my phone from the cute girls in them. They are definitely a growing up.

I couldn’t resist taking this picture of Grandma Richins teasing Daryl. He takes up a lot more room on her lap that he use too. He is growing up. 

We went to Scheel’s to get a setter’s volleyball for Lucy and the younger kids needed a picture with one of the statues. (Incase you are wondering a setter’s volleyball is a weighted volleyball to increase hand and finger strength.)

I made whole wheat sourdough waffles and they tasted wonderful but would have won an episode of Nailed It on appearance. 

Here are the lyrics to the song the title comes from. And here is a video of it. The kids sing about all the things they will get to do as a grown up.  Lucky for them they don’t know all the things they get to do when they grow up. Sometimes it’s a lot and thinking about the days when you weren’t grown up seem a little similar. Luckily you can change your story if you like or need too just like in the song. 

 [Tommy]

When I grow up
I will be tall enough to reach the branches
That I need to reach to climb the trees
You get to climb when you're grown up

[Bruce]
And when I grow up
I will be smart enough to answer all
The questions that you need to know
The answers to, before you're grown up

[Eric, Alice]
And when I grow up
I will eat sweets everyday on the way to work
And I will go to bed late every night

[Tommy, Bruce, Eric, Alice]
And I will wake up
When the sun comes up
And I will watch cartoons until my eyes go square

All children]
And I won't care 'cause I'll be all grown up
When I grow up

When I grow up

When I grow up

When I grow up
I will be strong enough to carry all
The heavy things you have to haul around with you
When you're a grown up

And when I grow up
When I grow up
When I grow up
I will be brave enough to fight the creatures
That you have to fight beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown up

And when I grow up (When I grow up)
I will have treats everyday
And I'll play with things that mum pretends
That mums don't think are fun

And I will wake up (I will wake up)
When the sun comes up
And I will spend all day just lying in the sun
And I won't burn 'cause I'll be all grown up

When I grow up

Miss Honey]
When I grow up
I will be brave enough to fight the creatures
That you have to fight beneath the bed
Each night to be a grown up
When I grow up

[Matilda]
Just because you find that life's not fair
It doesn't mean that you just have to grin and bear it
If you always take it on the chin and wear it
Nothing will change

[Miss Honey]
When I grow up

Matilda]
Just because I find myself in this story
It doesn't mean that everything is written for me
If I think the ending is fixed already
I might as well be saying
I think that it's ok
And that's not right