Here are ways to keep entertained while waiting.
1. Keep your toddler off the floor. And out of the waste basket. And away from the door. And coloring only on the paper. And from dropping every other Cheerio. And from eating the dropped Cheerios.
2. People watch. Imagine their stories. Engage someone and find out her story.
3. Make lists. Grocery lists. To do lists. Top 10 lists.
4. Work on the Sudoku puzzle from Sunday that's really hard and is probably halfway wrong.
5. Practice your [insert commonly spoken foreign language in your area] with the woman sitting next to you.
6. Brainstorm ideas for blog posts. Add to the lists you're writing.
7. Watch tiny newborn babies sleep, and listen to their hoarse but gentle cries when they wake up, and get all mushy thinking about having another one.
8. Watch overtired and bored siblings push each other off plastic chairs and be reminded of the benefits of birth control.
9. Mentally map out every drive-thru between the office and home, and imagine what you would eat at each one.
10. Pray. In the Spirit. For the mom you overhear telling her story to the worker at the counter. For the other worker at the counter dealing with an irate person. For a job to call back. For your name to be called so you can get home and eat something.
11. And for good measure: Text.
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Love #10! And #1? That's EVERYWHERE. So far, D1 hasn't gotten too sick from eating food off random floors. The worst is when I see her from afar chewing on something, and when I run and ask her "What are you eating?!" she quickly swallows it. *shudder*
ReplyDeleteKids will eat the craziest things. But if it doesn't kill em, well we've probably eaten worse. I used to eat sand and who knows what else.
ReplyDeleteCute list!