Whenever Seth is bored, or gets a scrape or a bump, or is just staring off into space, I implore him to focus. On my beauty.
"Mommy, there's nothing to do."
"You could focus on my beauty," I say with a smile.
He rolls his eyes. He averts his gaze so he definitely won't be focusing.
Whenever my children are watching TV, and a toy commercial comes on, Seth says, with feeling,
"I'm so gonna get those, all of those!"
Whenever Seth says, "I'm so gonna get those, all of those!" I feel compelled to fly into the room and say, "I'm so gonna kiss you! All of you!" and proceed to tackle him and give him 100 kisses, which he tries to wipe off, which I accuse him of rubbing in, like lotion, because he loves them so much.
Sometimes, I meet his gaze across a room, and give him the ole two finger to the eyes universal sign for focus on my beauty. He knows what it means.
He likes it. I'm sure he does.
Hey Mikey!
About Me
- Michelle O'Neil
- I've written for Literary Mama,The Imperfect Parent,Cool Cleveland,The Mad as Hell Club and the anthologies pictured below. I'm also a contributor to Hopeful Parents. In recent former lives, I worked in radio news and as a registered nurse. I blog about one Hot Toddy,two great kiddos,spirituality, autism and whatever else tickles me. Our daughter Riley is nine and has Asperger's,our son Seth is seven. Thanks for stopping! Make yourself at home.
Anthologies I've contributed to:
Countdown to Riley's Service Dog
I support gay marriage
Blog Roll
- 4 Paws for Ability
- 4 Paws for Kheira
- Author Mom With Dogs
- Carnal Zen
- Changing Trains
- Charlie the North Star Dog
- Courtney Sheinmel
- Creative Ink
- DC IMPACT
- Drama Mama
- Fully Caffeinated
- GMO-FREE SHOPPING GUIDE
- Healing and Preventing Autism
- Hopeful Parents
- Identity Crisis
- Incipient Turvy
- Indiebound.org
- Jennifer Lauck
- Jess Wilson
- Kario
- Kim Stagliano
- Laura Goodin
- Lend 4 Health
- Lessons from Liberty
- Lisa Romeo
- Literary Mama
- Look Me In The Eye
- Mad As Hell Club
- MB12
- Mercurious
- Normal Films
- Pixie Mama
- Real(tor) Thoughts
- Reflections on the Pond
- Roughly Speaking
- Teachings of Abraham
- TED Talks
- Teen Autism
- The Believing Soul
- The Daily Puppy
- The Pioneer Woman
- This Mom
- Working With Words
- Writer Unboxed
7 comments:
Ahhh, fun with kids. :-) Good times.
lol .. the o'neil house sounds like an awfully fun place to grow up!
You are so cool!
Sweet!
Like your new profile pic!
He DOES like it. I'm sure he does.
He will always and forever remember how fun you were. I betcha.
;)
I've been away for too, too long. What a treat to get caught up on your recent history.
Never fails. I get both laughs and tears when I visit here.
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