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So every now and then I feel like I am a doing something really right. You know living life the way is should be lived at the moment and taking advantage of the situation you are in to the best of your ability to really enjoy it. I say every now and then because there are so many moments, especially while raising my kids that I don't enjoy and revel in those moments the way I should. Well yesterday was one of the times I feel I might have got it right.
  I was at my parents house making bread, (every now and then I try to be a little domestic) and my nephew, Lincoln, was there. I don't get much time around him so I was excited that my girls would be able to play with him and I might too.  For the most part he played with his cousins that were there but for some reason he came around me while he had a little single shot rubber band gun- with no rubber bands-he's not quite 3, and I automatically said "oh, no don't shoot me." 
So what is the first thing he says- " I shoot you!" So I pretended to dye and fell down to the floor in the kitchen.
He thought that was great! He had me get up so I could do it again. I have to add that my mom had cleaned her carpets a few days earlier and hadn't gotten the furniture back in place so the whole front room was open.  So I got up and took of running in to the front room saying" Please don't shoot me. Oh, no! Don't shoot me. He's going to shoot me ! He's going to shoot me!"  Lincoln thought this was great, and so did my other nephew Mark(1 1/2 yrs. old) who was there.  All three of us were running around the front room, me trying not to get shot, Lincoln trying to shoot me, and Mark because it was fun and Lincoln and I were doing it.  After a minute or so of running in circles I got shot and fell to the ground again doing the best dramatic and grand flop I could do.  This happened over and over again until I had  to have a break. It was so much fun! Lincoln even thanked me for letting him shoot me before I left. It was great and made me feel like I had done something good and right that day!   

Side note the bread was pretty good too!

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kj said…
knowing what I know about you, I'm absolutely certain that you get it right a lot more often that "every now and then." you're awesome. Thanks for visiting my blog and I'm so glad that you have one now too!
February 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM
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