Day of Song

After watching Les Miserables, I was inspired. Maybe not in the way this movie inspires most. I had the idea of having a day of song. A day where we cannot talk, we must sing our conversations. No speaking whatsoever!

I introduced the idea to my children at supper tonight. I started singing to them. I sang and sang everything that I had to say. I sang them my idea. I sang about scenarios of going through McDonald's and having to sing my order to the cashier and what they might think.

Right in the middle of my singing, Nathan (4 yrs old) started putting his hands over his ears. He quietly asked me to stop the singing. I told him I couldn't, that I had to sing. His voice got louder and louder with a desperate sort of plea mixed with absolute annoyance.

But I couldn't stop until he was screaming at me.

Then I decided I really shouldn't push his buttons. That wasn't considerate of me.

So I stopped.

But I was having so much fun!

Nathan then proceeded to tell me in his exasperated voice, "that was the most horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, (and about 20 more horribles) thing you have ever done! Please don't EVER do it again!"

I guess maybe we shouldn't have a day of singing?