Weekly Wrap-Up, April 30, 2010

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Go figure.

I am the Queen of Sapa, in case you were unaware.  I have relatively NO authority in Sapa, where the King is supreme.  Geography quiz: Do you know where Sapa is?  No?  I’ll tell you – I don’t know either.  This is the country my five year old made up this week.  We have a national sport called Shove.  It’s very exciting.  My eight year old made it up – you play with a soccer ball and old shovels and cones and if you get hit in the nose with a handle because you are taller than all the other players you simply have to leave the game so they can’t see you cry.  In Sapa our national delicacy is Dandelion Fritters.  Truly.  They’re good with mustard…try them.  Our language is a combination of Spanish, French and English…but only the king speaks it.

I know, we are weird.  But the biggest joy for me this week was this experience.  My five year old dressed the part of the king and sat on his throne.  The next time I passed through the throne room my 13 year old was doing her school work, but had been bedecked in the royal clothes of Sapa.  Then the eight year old joined in by making up the national game and then my 11 year old made up another game…more dangerous and I can’t remember what it’s called but it involves shovels and plain broom handles.  It was great to see the creativity and cooperation bounce back after our two weeks of work, work, work.

We worked on purging our toys this week and I have to say it was wonderful.  Everyone has one box of toys of their choice to be responsible for (the 13 year old opted out – she wants NO responsibility for that stuff, I can relate!).  Everything else is awaiting delivery to the local donation center or is packed away in the storage closet awaiting further judgment.  So much simpler.  So much tidier.  So much more room for creation.  Ahhh.  Purging is a true principle. The books are next…much bigger job.

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