Time To Color



Carson's Coloring

Carson was creating one of his many crafts today in the preschool room. Holidays lend themselves to extra craftiness for him and he was coloring on heart doilies that he will probably eventually give to our neighbor. I sat down next to him and started to color one of the Valentine pages in front of me. He stopped coloring for a minute and looked at me with questioning eyes.

 

Then he simply said, "Grown ups don't usually color."

 

And I asked him, " Why do you think grown ups don't color?"

 

His answer was simply this, " Well grown ups are busy. They have lots of things that they have to do."

 

I didn't really want to ask this next question but I did. So I asked, " What do you think grown ups are busy doing?"

 

He said, " Grown ups have to do things like make dinner. They have to clean the house. And they have to fold laundry and wash dishes and sometimes they get to drive to the store to buy the food to make for dinner."

 

Sigh. My son sees me as a grown up who is too busy to color. I wonder what else he thinks I am too busy to do.

 

What do you think I did for the next 20 minutes? I colored.

 

I wonder when I forgot to color? Was it when I was trying to save money at the grocery store, or attempting to make healthy dinners for my family or perhaps it was when I was focused on keeping the house picked up for my husband? Maybe I forgot how to color when I was paying the bills or helping with homework?

 

I think I need to learn to color again, it appears I may have forgotten.

 

P.S.

Please know this post has very little to do with coloring .......

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