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A thoughtful Yom Kippur moment from the #landofcute
Mommy “Some Jewish people take a chicken and swing it over their heads just before Yom Kippur”
Eyes wide open…”What for?”
“Well, we say a prayer and as we swing it, we give the chickens our sins, and we ask god to forgive us for the sins we have committed”
Best question….”What is a sin?”
“Well, Stealing would be a sin, being mean to other people is a sin”
“Well, what happens to the chicken?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, what does the chicken swing over it’s head to get rid of it’s sin?”
“A mouse!”
“Annnnnd what does a mouse swing?”
“A fly!”
“And what does a fly swing?”
“An ant!”
“And what does an ant swing?”
“An atom!”
“Hmmmmm, I guess the sin filled atom just has to float in the air until it disappears”
“I guess so”
Marcus “This reminds me old lady who swallowed the fly”
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A financial tale from the #landofcute
Marcus knows that I set aside money for him every week. The dimes nickles and quarters go into his Finding Nemo piggy bank (thank you Lori Sone-Cooper!) and the loonies and twonies go into a beautifully painted African themed pot (Thank you L Deborah Sword). Today Marcus asked me to help him count all of his money. So, we did. After we finished counting it all up he said “We should go buy something!” and I answered
“This money we are saving for when you to got to university or for your first trip to Israel”
“Mommy” His voice sounding so sincere, “Lets take all of the big money (loonies and twonies) and put it back in here. Then let’s take all of the small money and take it to the mall so we can give it to poor people” I felt very proud
He was looking at me like “Isn’t this a great idea?!?”
I took a quiet deep breath in and said. “Marcus, I don’t think we are going to find poor people at the Pickering Town Center. But, I think you should take this money with you when you head down town tonight with daddy. Deal?”
“Deal” and we gave each other a high five!
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I have two tales from the #landofcute The other day I saw the tiniest rose on my rose bush. It was so tender and sweet so I showed it to Marcus. He suggested that I put it in a vase and put it on the dinning table. So I did. I went to show him how nice the table looked and he said “I want to decorate the table too! Close your eyes” When I opened them he had put our globe on the table next to the bud vase. My kid has style and a very large sense of home.
Today, we went to the movies. Why not? It was such a rainy day. I said to him in the car “One day you will take your kids to the movies on a rainy day” “Yeah!” he said “Marcus, do you want to have boys or girls?” “Girls, they are so sweet and nice and they are much smarter than boys”
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A tale from the #landofcute . Our plans changed this August and I realised pretty quickly (and selfishly) that I wanted Marcus and I to spend the month together. For the most part after setting up my crew he and I could take off and have wonderful adventures. There are other days however, where I just had to schlep him along to the garden center. I always worry that he will be bored. I should not have worried….
Yesterday Marcus and I were at Whole Foods. There was a woman shopping who was dressed beautifully in traditional African clothing. She had a head scarf on and her dress was made of mud cloth. Marcus looked at her for a moment and asked me
“Why is she dressed like that?”
I, caught off guard said
“Well Marcus, when she picked out this outfit this morning, I bet she looked at herself in the mirror and said “I look fabulous today!”
“Oh”
Fast forward to the check out line and in front of us was a little girl about 7-8 years old. Marcus struck up a conversation with her and I shit you not, Marcus asked her…
“Did you pick out your outfit today?”
The girl looked at him for a moment and look confused and she said “Well my mom helped me get dressed this morning”
“Well, did you look in the mirror this morning and say “I look fabulous!”?
So, there we were in Home Depot waiting in line. The man behind behind us farted and of course all of us adults ignored it. Farts happen. Not Marcus. “Hey. You just farted! I heard you” we all started laughing and the woman behind the counter said “Out if the mouths if babes”
Marcus liked the attention, but I did explain what being embarrassed feels like. Too funny!
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A wee tale of maturity from the #landofcute.
Mommy – Happy Birthday birthday boy! You are a whole year older than yesterday! How do you feel?
Marcus – Well, my clothes feel tighter on me. I really must have grown through the night!
Later that night as I am putting him to bed….
Marcus- Mommy, did you hear that?
Mommy- No
Marcus – Listen…..my voice has gotten deeper. I must really be growing up.
So friggin cute!
Btw. This is a picture of Marcus showing off the scrape on the bottom of his chin. Which is healing very well.
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A really small tale from the #landofcute
“Mommy, I don’t want to wear my shoes today. They are dirty.”
“Really, let’s see. Maybe we can clean them. Marcus what are your shoes covered with?”
“They got dirty in art class. It’s paper Moshe!”
Omg so funny. For those of you who don’t know Moshe is the Hebrew name for Moses….who freed the Jews from slavery in the Passover story 🙂
"Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength"
