Life is one big learning experience. And if all of life isn’t (but it is), parenting sure is. This week’s Monday Listicles is about 10 things I’ve learned this year. Here we go:
1) I can carry a 27-pound child on my shoulders.
2) Roasting a butternut squash really is easy.
3) When your day care says that each child is an individual, they mean “until that causes us slightly more work.”
4) I’m just never going to like brown rice.
5) No matter how careful you are, you will step on a Duplo.
6) I don’t have Pinterest guilt, because I never wanted to do that stuff anyhow.
7) Watching a two-year-old stack things is fascinating.
8) I don’t get nearly enough time with the friends I want to see.
9) Fennel seeds can ruin an entire dish for me.
10) I may be addicted to ice cream.
For future reference stepping on a Lego is even more painful than Duplos.
never had fennel seeds and I think I might avoid it based on this.
I’m sure I will learn that all too well. Maybe in 2013, who knows?
There’s no maybe about #10 for me! Definitely addicted. I’m with you on #6 – crafts bore me.
I can’t commit to them. It seems too hard to get all the materials and tools, and I have neither time nor space. So there were some cute DIY ornaments in this month’s Better Homes and Gardens, but when I thought about actually doing them, I realized it was never going to happen.
Based on your feelings about Pinterest, I think we could be great friends. Although I do like brown rice. Which is kind of an terrifying aberration when you live in Asia.
Different opinions about brown rice shouldn’t be a problem. I’d be happy to give you mine!
Sign me up for the “I don’t get Pinterest” support group. Unless, that is, you can pin (if that’s what it’s called) directions for easily roasting butternut squash. I’m often foiled by the cutting it open part. [Hangs head in shame.]
I did it for the first time a few weeks ago, and I have to admit that I did not cut it perfectly in half. One side had to roast a lot longer than the other. But it was still much easier than I thought.
My hubs is always amused at how long I can carry a 30-lb toddler… I tell him its like that old Hercules story of lifting the calf every day. Aaaaand I think I just compared my kid to a cow. *analogy fail*
Yesterday I compared mine to a border collie, so we’ll keep each other company.
You know, curry is what does it for me. I wish we were having roasted butternut squash at Thanksgiving tomorrow. Yum. Ellen
I like curry, but I do NOT know how to cook with it.
If you find an Ice Cream Anoynomous group, let me know. I need to sign up!
Not me. I’m reveling in it!
There are worst things then ice cream addiction. And wait until duplo turns into lego. You have been warned my friend. 🙂
Oh, I’m sure we’ll find out. The hard way.