1. Realize my children are getting older.
2. Finish Laundry
3. Yoga
4. Walk outside barefoot.
5. Wear pants that snap.
6. Put on the real perfume.
I could easily distract my children from seeing 'naughty' things when we watch T.V. or a movie. A quick redirect. A slight of hand. A circled explanation of a questionable moment.
Paper in hand, a lick and quick roll I knew what the actor was doing. "Oh bad boy rolling his own cigarette tsk-tsk." I said half-explaining the illegal activity, drawing attention away.
"Mom that's really weed" he said.
“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”
― Virginia Woolf