a time to keep: Today's Macisms

Why blog? I don't even have a facebook account...it feels like it makes life so public. But then--blogging is kind of like a diary, isn't it? It makes me feel a little like Doogie Houser at the end of the day--collecting my thoughts and putting them down. I don't want to blog because I want my life to be public (though I don't mind wearing my heart on my sleeve, most of the time) or because I'm a narcissist, but because these days of our young family are so precious I don't want to lose them to a faulty memory. This time, this stage, these moments truly are 'a time to keep', and blogging is simply the most convenient way to keep them and share them.

I really didn't think I'd ever start a blog...but now that Mac has stopped calling firetrucks "fire knuckles" (he now calls them firetrucks, and I'm so sad!), I realize I'll forget that he ever did that if I don't write it down. So, the blog begins. Welcome.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Today's Macisms

Mac: (While eating a cookie shaped like a train and playing with it--a party favor from Samuel's party) wards (moves it forward)...backwards (moves it backwards)...wards ...backwards...wards...backwards.

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Me: (watching Mac sit on a balloon--another favor from Samuel's party) Mac, it's okay to sit on the balloon, but realize that it might pop. It might scare you.

Mac: Balloon might pop!

(Some time passes. Mac 'pretends' to bite my leg.)

Me: (very seriously) Do NOT bite. If you bite me you will be in big trouble.

Mac: Yes ma'am...bite mama, mama pop!