Monday, January 3, 2011

..and Now a Word From Roxy...

Roxy is my planner.  She is up, always up, on all the details.  She cleans her room on Saturday night, knowing I may let her bring a friend home from church and she wants to show she is prepared.  She remembers everything, it seems.  She remembered the leftover candy from the gingerbread house built on the last day of school 2010, and that bag is sitting in her school desk and she cannot wait to get it.  And she has got the week planned out, right down to the number of times she needs to practice basketball before her first game.

Roxy just kind of rocks that way - and I love it.

Roxy is also becoming a planner of her future.  Over the Christmas break, she has been very thoughtful about some very specific details of her life:  what kind of man she should marry, when she should get married, what color hair he should have, what he should do for his hobbies and his career, what kind of car she will drive, what kind of car she will drive when she has children, what kind of job she will have, what kind of kids she will have, etc.  You get the gist of this, don't you?

And she thinks about all of these things in her spare time.  More precisely, she thinks about these things during commercial breaks.

Roxy plans how she will spend her time during her favorite TV shows.  She is always doing something - drawing, coloring, pretending to be a dog, playing with stuffed animals, building a blanket fort - during the show, then she thinks during the commercials.

Scott and I are fascinated with her priorities, with her planning skills, and with her purposeful use of commercial breaks.

Tune in next time to hear about how she sizes up men, which she thought about during an Adventure time! commercial break...

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