Don’t Lego
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Friday, September 12, 2008 2:16 PM
Somedays I am tempted to start a new column around here, one called “Did You Hear That Wailing?” Because there are those days that I seem to get pushed and tested and forced to deal with uncomfortable situations. Some days the wailing is from the boys. Some days it is from me.
Lately, those moments have included: clothes shopping with the boys (wailing from them); a recent trip that involved travelling seven states with five boys in one day (wailing from me); and my most recent moment: dropping my son’s newly-put-together Lego Castle Seige that my boys spent days building.
Did you hear that wailing? That was from all of us.
A few days ago, I needed to move the Legos upstairs to make room for my sister-in-law and her baby, who would be spending a few days with us. The Legos were in the way.
“Don’t move the castle,” my boys pleaded and begged. “It will fall apart.”
I assured my boys that the castle would not fall apart, that I would take great pains to make sure it made it up the stairs and into the proper location for a thousand more hours of fun.
But of course they were right. I transferred the (1,000 piece) castle out of the spare room, into the dining room and up the stairs. It stayed in one piece. Then I carefully carried it into the proper bedroom and gently lowered it onto the rug—and then it promptly split into a thousand pieces. Maybe not a thousand, because a few large chunks did manage to stay together.
So anyway, that wailing you heard was from me. And then the boys got home from school and realized what happened, and that wailing was from them. And then when I saw how sad they were, how utterly devastated the destruction of the castle made them, then that wailing was from me again.
This afternoon, our plans are set—I will be helping them recover lost pieces to get Humpty Dumpty back together again. While I don’t normally get in on the Lego-building action, I feel like I kind of owe them as much.
Did you hear that wailing…
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