It’s amazing what happens when you ask.
GG’s Birthday List:
Acoustic guitar
Dachsund puppy
New smaller DVD player
Ears pierced
World peace
Room re-arranged
Bunk bed with sofa
Pink room
Wii
And what doesn’t.
What are you asking for right now?
Asking for it
July 2nd, 2008
tags: Georgia Grace, Trust
One of my greatest joys as a parent is discovering what my child desires (and doesn’t.) It is never more apparent than when the birthdays roll around.
And speaking of dogs, how’s Molly?
Comment by Kristin H. — July 2, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
today i’m asking for inner air conditioning to cool my sweaty, overworked soul.
Comment by Holly — July 2, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
Kristin,
Molly has an intermittent and worrisome limp. Could be arthritis, stiffness, numbness, normal, abnormal, who knows? It doesn’t worry her, just me. And when I see that no matter what the circumstance, I’m the source of the worry, it cools me off Holly, the only kind of air conditioning that gets the job done in these temperatures.
Comment by Karen — July 2, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
I love how she smoothly puts World Peace in the middle of such a list. And how have you managed to NOT have a pink room by now? Everything’s pink at our house. I dream in pink, in fact.
Speaking of world peace; some peace came our way yesterday in an old American Girl box filled with some great reading material. That’s all we’re doing now. In the house, in the yard, at the park even this morning. Devouring at least five in a sitting. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Comment by Shawn — July 2, 2008 @ 4:54 pm
I’m asking for two weeks of meals I don’t have to cook or clean up after, laundry that someone else does, and abolutely nothing to do but read and journal during those same two weeks. And world peace.
Comment by GailNHB — July 2, 2008 @ 7:09 pm
sleep. even just a few uninterrupted hours would be nice. that, or an unending supply of energy! 🙂
Comment by denise — July 2, 2008 @ 8:36 pm
printer ink
picture frames
a new shower head
money to develop all our film
time
understanding
no more grief over potty training
Comment by mapelba — July 2, 2008 @ 10:24 pm
watermelon
a healthy pup
lower humidity
courage
Comment by nikole — July 2, 2008 @ 11:06 pm
a job I won’t hate
not to need a job
Comment by Mrs. B. Roth — July 2, 2008 @ 11:11 pm
*to feel more energized
*to accept feeling exhausted
*to have another child (which I realize contradicts the first two wants)
*a back yard
*a massage
Comment by Kathryn — July 3, 2008 @ 4:15 am
To be more alone and feel less alone.
Comment by Mama Zen — July 3, 2008 @ 4:35 am
Hear, hear. Or is it here, here?
Comment by Jena Strong — July 3, 2008 @ 10:08 am
Ah yes, “and what doesn’t.” Love that thought, too.
My short list:
snuggles
ears pierced again
world peace
piano or keyboard
Comment by Mary Ann — July 3, 2008 @ 12:21 pm
That is the best list EVER!!!
Comment by Mika — July 3, 2008 @ 7:34 pm
My list is not so short:
*A nice rainstorm (with lightening that doesn’t start a fire)
*A pedicure
*Time to read
*Time to write
*A day with no whining
*A clean house – the whole house, each and every room clean at exactly the same moment
*A pizza oven (outdoors – fancy schmancy)
*Raised vegetable beds
*Oh yes, and world peace
For my birthday, which was two days ago, I got 1/2 of the upstairs of the house cleaned by my children with a side of moaning, groaning and whining. Some is better than none. :o)
Comment by Shalet — July 3, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
peace, love, caring,health, food to eat. Sharing with others. And once in a while, a clean house.
Comment by debra — July 4, 2008 @ 12:53 am
Aside from world peace, always at the top, I want solitude. Total solitude, where I can just be alone with myself and thoughts. This never happens for me. I would treasure it, even if it was a day.
Happy 4th of July.
Comment by Eileen — July 4, 2008 @ 5:20 pm