Today's not-so-favorite moments included . . .
. . . pulling up yet another morning glory vine in the borrowed garden, and discovering that I'd uprooted a pea plant with it.
Today's favorite moments included . . .
. . . yanking enough morning glories out of the borrowed garden to fill another trash can.
. . . walking into Trader Joe's and seeing dozens of boxes of their holiday chocolate star cookies. I could eat those all day. If they'd had Pink Lady apples in stock, too, I might have hugged every employee I met.
. . . seeing Anna smile.
And another thing . . .
. . . Joy borrowed Chutes and Ladders from a friend, and as we played it I noticed an interesting pattern. Every chute or ladder is flanked by illustrations showing good or bad choices and their consequences. The bad consequences tend to be directly related to the bad choices--if you pull a cat's tail you get scratched; if you carry twenty dishes at a time, you may drop some and break them. On the other hand, many of the good consequences seem only indirectly related to the good choices, especially if those choices involve chores. The kids who mows the lawn gets to go to the circus; the one who vacuums goes to the movies; the one who takes out the trash gets a big bowl of ice cream.
I guess you can make the point that if you do your chores you'll have time (and perhaps money) to do fun things, but what about the satisfaction of a clean home and a job well done? Is it hard to depict that in a kid-friendly illustration, or does our society only value work as a mean to obtain a treat?
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