My first and second born daughters inherited my love of words. Once, when Gagey was starting to fill out & get that round little baby look, i was holding him & snuggling him & i said, "Oh, Gagey, i love you my little rotund boy."
All conversation ceased.
"What does ROTUND mean?" (Seriously, you don't want to dis Gagey in our house. He is a king pin & has many loyal followers... )
Being the awesome homeschool mom that i am - i made them pull out the thesaurus.
Sloanie started reading & a smile spread over her face... "rounded or swollen with fat?!"
Cai continued, "chubby, plump, plumpish, plumpy, podgy, puddy, pudgy, roly-poly, round, roundabout, spuddy, tubby, compare to FAT, beefy, chunky, dumpy, heavyset, squat, stocky, stubby, thick, thickset, paunchy, potbellied, buxom, on the plump side."
They were roaring by now. All loyalty aside, Gage fit almost every word of description & he sat there with his satisfied smirk as they read them over and over again and tried to write a song incorporating every one.
And then there was the time when Sloanie out of the blue asked my mom, "Granny, do you know any pompous old fools?" She loved the way that handle rolled off her tongue.
So, it should have come as no suprise to me when Cai approached me with a slightly embarrassed smile on her face & told me she wanted to rename her blog.
"i want it to be "Me And My "".... i just need the perfect word... Not 'siblings' not 'subjects' or 'underlings'... but something like that... something that means that they're mine - but i need just the right word."
HAHAAAA
We searched for a very long time...
bootlicks, flunkies, servants, band, crowd, multitude, throng, crowd, company, minions, posse, assemblage, clan... We never found *just the right word*... but she eventually settled on "posse".
Any word lovers reading this post, feel free to offer your suggestions in the comments section & i will be sure to pass them on to my mini-me blogger.
Ah, for the love of words...
3 comments:
Crew? Peeps? I don't know, exactly...
I like peeps but i would use it differently... i have children named Robin and Wren... peeps would be just right for them.-j
Paige, we just talked about this today - today's Bible reading was Genesis 34 - we talked about Dinah and how everyone reading this story could come away with something different - maybe girls would see the need to have protection around them (husbands, brothers etc) - men might see how they are needed to watch over and protect, see how one sin creates chaos for a whole village (all men killed, all women and children taken)...
anyway, i used the word "tribe" - we all need to watch over the smaller, more vulnerable ones in our tribe - and we need to keep an eye out for the ones bigger than us, make sure we are being covered by someone bigger...
so, i like tribe :)
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