After carefully watching my seven year old last night, I can now offer these instructions for "how to get ready for the beach...in February."
1) Carefully peel off your socks. Check.
2) Find last summer's flip-flops and rejoice they still fit. Check.
3) Roll up the sleeves of your corduroy dress. Check.
4) Push your leggings up as high as they'll go, so they're more like shorts. Check.
5) Find your sunglasses and put them on. Cool shades! Check.
6) Ditto your sunhat. Check.
7) Turn the overhead light on in the front hall, the energy-saving one that lights up gradually, "like a sunrise." Check.
8) Open the red paper parasol (the one from Daddy's prop stash) and position it carefully so it looks like a beach umbrella. Check.
9) In blissful denial of the something like two feet of snow outside our house (no joke, the piles are huge and it JUST KEEPS SNOWING) flop down under your beach umbrella and happily sun yourself. Check.
Now you're all ready for the beach...in February! Don't forget some light reading...
2 comments:
Ha! Love it! Reminds me of the book Scaredy Squirrel at the Beach - except it was warm and sunny out in that, so his beach was outside. An indoor beach sounds like a lot of fun!
It cracked me up to see her sitting there "sunning" herself, considering what the weather was like outside. Nice fantasy though. I'm pretty ready for a beach myself!
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