Cheers! To Your Sanity!

So....somewhere along the line, my daughter picked up the concept of "cheers." It started off with her just wanting to tap our wine glasses with her sippy cup full of milk, but has escalated in the past month to other areas beyond the dinner table.

My husband and I thought it was cute that she wanted to "cheers" us with her toddler fork (by tapping it against our dinner forks) so we indulged her. Or when she would run up to me while I was spitting toothpaste in the sink and hit her toothbrush against mine and say....surprisingly....Cheers! Soooo cute, I thought.

For some reason she finds the concept of "Cheers" quite amusing. She's incorporated it into her daily routine....celery stick with peanut butter...Cheers!.......crayons.....Cheers! icee pops....Cheers! She even came over to me in the kitchen and bumped her hip to mine and said....naturally....Cheers! Momma! Cheers!

While I'm not so sure how this will all eventually play out once she's enrolled in primary school, it always makes me smile to know that she finds sheer joy in the simplest of things. I cringe to imagine what her teacher would think of us if my daughter were to run to the front of her class just to tap a pencil against the teacher's chalk while shouting the inevitable "Cheers." Or what the educators on duty in the cafeteria would think if they saw a group of five-year-old's clanking juice boxes, while shouting "Cheers!"

Or what the other moms might think if they were to see my daughter tap her fruit punch against another child's drink at a birthday party....um....actually, I know what they would be thinking...dear God, please don't let her have learned that from us!

And gone would be those glorious happy hour playdates!

Not a chance!

***A Side Note***
Your taxes are due in 3 hours...so get your ass to Staples, buy Turbo Tax, and get it done you lazy bastards!

***Another Side Note***
A thank you to Donna, for lighting a fire under my ass and giving me the ego boost I needed to keep writing this nonsense. It's nice to know there are actually people out there who missed the blog while I was gone!

***Third Side Note - A Game***
See if you can find the "hidden" new blog post! No, seriously, there is a new post further down the screen (don't know why it showed up there as opposed to...um...the top of the screen.) Anyway....scroll.....scroll....keep scrolling...Hiatus? No...State of the Absurd? No....keep scrolling you morons!...Shepards' Pie? Nope....ah.....there it is....In Vino Veritas....