Polar Express; Outta Here. And other minutia..

Side note: I started this entry three nights ago. Life has not allowed me to sit still for longer than five minutes to do much of anything let alone something leisurely and selfish like write. I'm taking a moment now though. Ha! Take that life!

How many times I ask you? How many times? I just want to know, how many times can one child watch one movie? I think it's the train. He knows the lines. He knows the songs. He's a smart kid. But come on. I'm so over it. And it's not because Christmas is over. I've just hit the wall with this movie. And the Oldest is about to lose his mind; if you sing one line from one verse of one of those songs he just goes into this thing where a glaze comes over his eyes and anger fills his face. Poor thing.



And the Littlest asked for it again....and I told him, it's broken. It's gone. He kept asking. I kept saying it was gone. Good grief! At least a week's reprieve? The Oldest actually looked at me this morning and said, "I don't want him watching that movie again till July!" Yikes. I think we are fully saturated with Polar Express.



Geo Trax has been quite a surprise for all of us. All of us enjoy it and the boys so much more. It was a gift for the Littlest yet the Oldest and his Daddy are also having a great time figuring and reconfiguring all different tracks. I checked on Ebay and oh my goodness people actually bid on GeoTrax Train stuff there. Really? I'm not fully immersed in it yet but maybe they are older pieces you can't find in the stores? I dunno. Regardless that has been quite the hit around here. Simple fun. Not too much, not an overload of 1,000 pieces, how can a child appreciate anything when there is too much? I still don't get that. Don't get me started. Ok, I feel it, it's coming out anyway. Yes we could if we wanted load up a credit card and get them so much that it lines up the walls of a room; sure. Anyone can do that. Or buy it with cash, whatever way you do it. My point is, why GET that much stuff? Why GIVE a child that much stuff? Really? You are not teaching them one single thing except 'gimme more' and certainly not to value any one thing they have. Really, don't get me started. I think my boys have nice things, sure they do. And when you look in one of the drawers of the Oldest' toy drawer set (that we've had forever and was a hand me down from my SIL-notice practicality here) yes you will see a large amount of action figures. So if that is excessive, and maybe it is, but I think only slight when compared to some others, then call me out. But truly, other than that, we aren't into giving them so much and spending $500-1000 to make them happy. They are already happy. There isn't any crying in a store. Well, I take that back, please note that I have once written about the Oldest having the CTS disease (conquer the store) but this was some time ago and I believe he has sufficiently outgrown this disease with some serious steering from his Daddy and I. And some pretty level headed discussions about how being given everything you want with every whining and whimsey teaches him nothing at all and will not prepare him for the real world at all. He gets it. Thank goodness. We all get it. Thank goodness. Material things are not at all what makes this world go round. It's love. Which is why in the end, I suppose if the Littlest asks for Polar Express again, of course, he can. It's the little things. I can plug my ears right? I'm talking myself into it. I can shove cotton in them. Uh huh. He's a train boy. What can you do?

My knee is getting better in some ways but hurting in new places. I think I've been using it differently and new muscles or strains are talking to me. Letting me know. Don't like it! It's almost been one week since my fall and I'd have thought it would have been all better by now. So I'm a little impatient. Ya think?