Wishful Thinking

Matt has displayed some new behaviors just this week that Mom is loving. These have to do with CLEANING! He is, after all, a boy after Mom’s own heart. They may not be a big deal for a typical kid with normal thinking processes, but for Matt - and Mom – they are huge.

The other day he saw that the kitchen trash was full. He said to me, “Mommy, trash?” Imagine…my kid offering to take out the trash. Moments later he came to me with a new trash bag to put in the can. Wow. I didn’t even know he realized where we keep them.

In the downstairs powder room we have a free-standing toilet roll holder. It holds the current roll, and then underneath it three more rolls are stored ready to go. He noticed that there were no more rolls stored - empty. He grabbed three rolls from a bag of TP and filled it up. Nice.

Matt’s job is to unload the dishwasher. He has, at times, been a little overzealous with this job. Once in awhile he even unloads the dirty (yuk!) dishes from the dishwasher and puts them away. Last night after dinner, in the middle of watching Avatar, he made his way into the kitchen. The dishwasher was done. He said, “Dishwasher hot.” Then he stood there in the kitchen waiting patiently for the dishes to cool off so he could put them away…no dirty dishes in the cabinet today.

I woke up this morning thinking “I wish the girls would catch some of that.”

Mallory woke up with the urge to cook. She made us pancakes for breakfast, then chicken and tortellini for lunch. Marti, after helping me Miracle-Gro our little bit of heaven, asked, “Can I wash the cars?”

I should do more Wishful Thinking. SMW