I… I’m at a loss. Really.
May 29, 2007 · Print This Article
As I sit here on my bed, laptop open, busily inventing new and exciting adventures for Juliet, my heroine-of-the-moment, my daughters run past me, circling through my room, through the hall, through the bathroom, and back again, around and around in circles they go, clad only in their underpants, shouting at the top of their lungs, “I’m a MAN, Momma! I’m a MAAAAAAAAAN!”
Yep.
I believe it was Mark Twain who said, “It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.” Now let me guess what you’re thinking: Twain was a friggin’ genius.
Right?! Hey?! Am I RIGHT?!
Good lord.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to sit back, figure out how best to embarrass my daughters with this story when they are teenagers, and wait for their over-tired, it’s-almost-bedtime hysteria to wear off.
Then it’s off to bed they go, and I’ll just be sittin’ over here, laptop open, writin’ the fiction, chillin’ like a villain.
And… here they come again. “I’m a MAN! I’M A MAAAAAAN!”
*sigh*
Honestly.
Tomorrow night, when they progress to performing, “I’m a Soul Man,” please provide video for us. Those are some fine young men you’re raising there
I think it was Chicago that sang it best…”Im a man, yes I am, and I can’t help but love you so.”
Ha!
And how distracting, from the fiction writing, the running in underpants must be!
Where do your girls come up with this stuff? I love them!
BTW….when do they/you head to AZ? We’ll be in church on the 17th after our family vaca. to the beach….and then it’s back out here to the lush and green (uh, yeah right) desert!
Spencer Davis Group, William. But right era … as in “When You Were But A Child”.
I find having girls run around in just their underpants actually helps my writing.