Memoir Monday - Don't Come Home Without A Watch

It's Monday which means we can play Memoir Monday with Travis at I Like to Fish. I believe the only rule is that your memory has to be true. So write your post, including Travis' book below, and send a link to Travis. He'll post it with others. Check out the other memoirs. They are always good for a laugh.

One morning when Jonathan was three I came into the family room and observed Jonathan staring up at the clock. He asked, "What are the lines between the numbers?" I wondered to myself what three year old 1) knows how to tell time and 2) notices the "lines between the numbers?" Thus began Jonathan's fascination with time.

This year I come downstairs for breakfast and I find this

 

"I wanted to know if the minute hand actually moves. Guess what, it does!"

Jonathan started wearing a watch when he was four. It only comes off when he takes a bath or goes swimming. Somewhere around first or second grade, Jonathan came down in the morning and announced his watch stopped. Well, I didn't stop to talk to him about it, instead I immediately called Scott, "Don't you dare come home without a new watch."

In the meantime, Jonathan started panicking, "I don't know what time it is." So I walked him around the house and pointed out all the clocks in the house. And since he was headed off to school, I told him there are clocks all around the school too, he just needed to look."

I realized I should have a collection of back up watches in the house. I found a purple watch on-line. I thought it would go great with Jonathan's Purple Man comic character. And the same site had a green one for Faith's Green Girl comic character. What's even cooler, is that the watch case looks like a giant Lego. But, alas, Jonathan is a creature of habit, just like his father. I'm afraid, I'll have to buy a dozen of the watches that he started off with. It reminds me of the scene from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium where Mr. Magorium bought a "lifetime supply of shoes" from an Italian cobbler, nine hundred years prior. And now that his last pair of shoes is almost worn out, so soon will Mr. Magorium.

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Oh, and Honey, if you are reading this post and haven't got my Valentine's Day present yet, here is just one idea (Black or Red Valentine's theme. P.S. Don't be scared by the music on the site like I was.) I'll look around for some more.

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Sunday's In My City - Retracting Teen Give-a-way

I'm not sure about all the rules for Sunday In My City over at Unknown Mami's place. I've seen people post pictures of flowers, landscapes, buildings, statutes and even man hole covers. (I think it was at Sunday In My City where I saw the man hole covers which tell a story if you follow them for several blocks.)

Anyway, here is her button if you want to play along. It's like traveling to see different parts of the world without leaving your home. In my case, I've been home bound for a month. So the best I can do is show you the snow around my house this Sunday.

By the way, I'm retracting my offer to give away an experienced babysitting, hard working 17 year old teenager who eats his mom's chocolate covered pretzels and drinks her Diet Dr. Pepper cherry flavored soda. I've found out there are advantages to a teen who'll eat food right from his mother's mouth.

I was sitting down to my lunch, when Joshua decided that he wanted it. I told him he could have it if he saved my beautiful holly tree which was bent to the ground from the weight of the snow.

He ran out immediately to start working. 

 

 But decided that he needed a little more protection. 

So he came inside to get a little more more protection. 

Look at the snow in his hair.

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