More Lynxcub conversations: nice gods and no-kids concerts

[misslynx]

(playing with a stuffed toy dragon): Here, dragon - I brought you this candle to light with your breath, because it's Brigid's day, and Brigid is a nice god

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[tamago23]

I guess you've been assigned the traditional man-breadwinner role, and she's supposed to be the stay-at-home mom. Ah, kids. :P

[misslynx]

Yes... Although it would really make more sense the other way around, since I'm the one who works at home, and she's more gainfully employed than I am. But I am also the one who has to tell him when he can't do things he wants to do, make him take baths, etc., so I suppose he thinks that if Dianne was with him all day it would be all Lego all the time and no baths or sorry-you've-had-enough-sugar or no-you-can't-play-with-fire.

[solar_energie]

I wanna go too! I think Within Temptation is in Toronto on the 7th but I can't go because I now reside in Guelph.

[misslynx]

I'd be going to the Toronto show if it had been scheduled earlier - originally they had said the NYC show was going to be their only North American show before the European tour, so at that point I asked Dianne, since she lives in Albany, if she'd be up for going to the NYC show, and she agreed despite it not being exactly her usual sort of music. Then, after she'd bought our tickets for that show and I'd made plans to go down to Albany, and from there with her to NYC, they announced that several more North American dates had been added - including Toronto.

I guess the Toronto show being right in the middle of the week, at the beginning of the school year, means that coming into town for it is right out for you... Still, glad to hear that you're a WT fan. I always knew you'd turn out all right. :-)

[solar_energie]

Yep, I think the seventh is the night before classes start. And how could I not like WT?

[g33kboi]

Awww!! I just read some of this to a couple of coworkers who now think he is the most adorable child ever. Of course they're right. :-)

He's going to be awfully disappointed when he learns that I will still have to work once I'm there.

[misslynx]

Yes, I think he's convinced himself that he's going to live with us when you move here. This is probably because on one of the many occasions when he's asked if he could live with me, I said maybe someday, once you were living here and he was older and going to school in the daytimes, and only if Mama and Daddy and you were OK with it, and probably a couple of other ifs, etc. But I think he blocked out every part that wasn't what he wanted to hear.

[theshapeshifter]

Duncan and I have had some VERY similar discussions about concerts where kids are allowed versus ones at which they are not allowed. I've lucked out in that so far, "this concert goes way past your bedtime" usually suffices, but I know that's bound to run out on me sooner or later.

[misslynx]

I don't think that approach would work here, because the Cub is a night owl by nature (wow, that sounds like a major biology fail - cub, owl...). If I tried to tell him he couldn't do something because it would go past his bedtime, I am pretty certain the response would be "But that's OK because I am never going to sleep again, not ever!"

He's fond of that particular phrasing even apart from sleep/bedtime issues - at various points recently, he's told me he was never going to eat again, never going to drink again, and never going to pee again, not ever. The latter is actually the origin of the line - it's from a Robert Munsch book about a little boy who always insists he doesn't have to pee when his parents ask (and frequently, that he is never going to pee again), only to then have to pee at the worst possible time.

[thewronghands]

Oh, I remember being that age, and feeling the vast unfairness of there being things I wasn't able to go to pressing down upon me. Poor kid. I think you did a pretty good job of handling that, but the underlying issue is that the world is often unfair.