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When the magic's gone | Pad Patter 2.22.18

Tree City said:
I didn't realize Karen was the original white text magician! I just knew I picked it up from the reading pad lol!

Oh, it drives me nuts when people nix a house cuz of the dual sink thing (or some other minor issue). Just brush your teeth after your spouse. I'd rather have counter space for all of our stuff instead of an extra sink to clean! Or when they say, "Ew. I don't like that wall color" cuz you can buy a gallon of paint for like $35! It's one of the easiest things to change. Sorry, this is way off your original topic, but I had to say it!
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so true! all of it!
 
So when I read this title, I interpreted it as the magic being gone from a husband and a wife and I thought, 'Wow. That's kind of a personal thread!' :giggle

I think becoming an adult, in general, has made life lose some of its magic. When I was growing up, I literally did not spend one second thinking about meals, bills, transportation, appointments, gifts, parties, vacations... they all just magically happened when they needed to & I always got to where I needed to be when I needed to be there and with what I needed to be there with.

When I was in high school, I was involved in Spell Bowl, Academic Super Bowl, the literary magazine, honors classes, youth group, Handbell choir, & had a summer job for two years without a car of my own. The sheer logistics of my mother driving me hither and yon while also taking care of the house, working full-time, and also raising my sister (my dad worked 50-60 hours a week and often at night and on weekends so it all fell to her) is mind-boggling to me now that I'm an adult with two children of my own.
 
I was going to come in and basically agree with most everyone. And then this happened this morning: I was scrolling through Facebook and a friend posted a pic of her daughter using a "busy book" (a book that has those zippers, snaps, ribbons to tie, etc.). The hippo page looked almost exactly like one I had as a kid and passed to my DD.
All this time I didn't even think that my mom would have bought a pattern to make this book but obviously it was before Internet and Pinterest so she had to get the idea from somewhere!
(Sorry if this pic is too big - I took it on my phone to show my friend too!)
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My husband and I are both engineers, and sometimes I wish we did have more magic in our lives! However, we seem to always *need* to know how things work or why they work the way they do. My teenager's teachers tell us that he seems to have an aptitude for figuring out how things work, and I suppose that's a direct result of a lifetime of him asking us questions and getting real answers, rather than making up some magical reason.

We still have Santas and Easter Bunnies (especially since there are no Santa gifts or Bunny baskets without them); my youngest is nine years old, so we have a couple more years. When I was about six or so, I left a jelly bean for the Easter Bunny and he left a thank you note -- Easter just wasn't the same after that, although my dad tried to explain that he was helping out. LOL
 
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