So yesterday Mira (my 10 yr old) & I were driving and she commented on how many leaves had fallen. I asked her if she really thought the season was called Fall because the leaves fall off of the trees. She said she definitely thought that was the reason. I told her that Spring must be named for the flowers springing up out of the ground, and she agreed. Then she asked me why Fall was also called Autumn. I told her it was because it starts getting cold and wimpy people like me say “It ought’em be warmer.” She got a laugh out of that. Then she asked how in the world summer got it’s name. I said because “some are” hot and “some are” not. That one got a little chuckle, not too big. I know, it was totally lame. I knew she was going to ask me about winter next and I had no idea what goofy thing to say for that one. I was thinking hard and trying to come up with something clever, but she beat me to it. She said, “I know, it’s because it was so cold and some “went brrrr.” It was a stretch, but we loved it. We decided that Winter was a silly name and Wintbrrr is much better.
And tonight when I tucked her in I was my normal goofy self, making silly little jokes and she said, “You are so crazy.” And then she snuggled me so tight. I asked her if I should stop being so crazy and she pulled her head back and looked me right in the eye and said “NEVER!!” Then she snuggled me even tighter. I’m looking forward to Wintbrrr and many more nights of those snuggles.
