It’s so odd. Now that Junior spends all day Friday with me (after his swim lesson I don’t bring him to daycare) it always feels like Saturday. Compound that with the fact that we go to my parents’ house to play with my sister and her kids and if really does feel like the weekend. I am all for 3 day weekends. Bring ’em on.
A lot of people’s kids have imaginary friends. I did when I was very little. I actually remember her, to some extent. Her name was Deebee. She was my friend when I was still an only child. Then my sister came along, and my parents, for whatever reason (maybe dad will comment on this, I know he’s reading it) decided to name her Debra, aka Debbie. Get it? Deebee? Debbie? Deebee disappeared at that point. I guess the new little person in our house was more interesting. It’s hard to say, I wasn’t even three yet when all this happened.
Well Junior has an invisible friend too (who only comes out at random times, and he’s not a trouble maker – I don’t have to set a place for him at the table, but I do have to sometimes call down to him to make sure he comes up for bed.) Today Junior makes an announcement…Jim has some friends visiting. And they like it here so much that they’re moving in.
“How many people are there?”
“Ten boys and two girls.”
Oy vey, this kid kills me. So now I have 12 invisible people living in my house, but luckily they drive themselves wherever they need to go. Oh, and they have names. Ready? Tammy, Marsha, Jim, Joshua, Fred, Freddie, Anthony, Jeff, Murray, Greg, Allen and Little Critter. (Anthony, Jeff, Murray, and Greg are the Wiggles and Little Critter is from the Mercer Mayer books – we own almost all of them.) Which made me remember something else…when I was only a little older than Junior is now, I used to pretend that I was having adventures with the cast of HR Pufnstuf and the Bugaloos…so I can understand why the Wiggles are living in our house. Jimmy, Freddie the Flute, Harmony, Joy, Courage and IQ used to live at my mom’s house.
