The One In Which I Let My Children Speak For Themselves

The weekend’s coming up.

For our kids, that means full days spent with both Mommy and Daddy.

And they say they like that.

I bet your kids do too.

I thought I’d spend this post finding out exactly what my kids think would make a perfect weekend together as a family.

Here goes.

Alright kids –

How would you like to spend this weekend?

What would make it perfect to you?

Mosely: Ummm.  Go to Chuck E. Cheese’s.

Piper: I want to go to see all of Eagle’s friends.

Mosely: That’s not somewhere.  But you can’t say Chuck E. Cheese’s.  I already said that.

Piper: I want to go see all of Eagle’s friends.

Bergen: Go to Dancing Bear and buy something.

Piper: I don’t want to go to Eagle’s place.  I want Eagle to enjoy his own friends. I want to go buy something at Dancing Bear. I want Eagle to buy something at his place where all of his friends live.

Me: Where is Eagle’s place?

Piper: Far away.  We will have to ride an airplane when we go there.

Bergen: All I want to do is get another Toothless toy.

Otto: Garble garble.  Screech.  [Three kids attempt to interpret Otto’s burbles into a defense of their own choices.]

Mosely: Go to the candy shop in Hendersonville and do that art painting place – the pottery  place.

Bergen: And I know what I want –  I want to sleep in the living room.

Piper: Or sleep out in the darkness.

Piper: I want to go Pisgah Natural Forest and Hendersonville and the pottery place and the basketball place and the toy place and the candy place and the ice cream place and the pottery place and get another booster seat that’s black and white and pink and red and I want to go to into the computer.

Me: Okay?

Piper: Never mind Mom.  I want to go to Chuck E. Cheese’s.  And that’s it.  Can you make my hair like Mosely’s?

Otto: [Traps himself under the kitchen chair and scribbles chalk on the floor.]

Bergen: Oh – and I want to go to Subway.

Bergen: And London wants to go to Israel.

Me: Why can’t London come tell me herself where she wants to go?

Bergen: She’s with Dad.

Mosely: Can we do stuff with glitter?

Me: Sure.  In a few minutes.

Mosely: Don’t you think that’s enough planning?

Me: I guess so.

I think you should also know that Piper was not wearing any clothes for this interview.