When I ask “Lela what should we do today?”

Her response is almost always, “go groceries?.” I know we spend a lot of time at home, but I concluded I am quite the boring mom, if being pushed around in a steel buffalo through Hy-vee is the highlight of her day. sigh.

Today as she gave her usual response, my mind replayed the thrilling things we do at home. When we paint, I can never get the right color to her palette fast enough, or she gets paint on her hands and can no longer proceed “ahh, yucky”; when we bake I don’t let her sample raw eggs & batter before it reaches the oven, “ahh-I want some(stomp foot stomp)”; when we read stories her brother gets in the way “uhhh, no, go-way Si” and when we play dance party she always ends up spinning her way into a wall. Take note most of them end in toddler world tragedies.

So my home goal today was to play something new. I selected to set up her entire Little People toy collection. The 15 minute set up, includes houses, a tent, a race track, a ferris wheel, a train, a barn, cars, the jungle, a water fall etc. We displayed all the people and animals for a fun day at the park. Yeah, let the fun at home begin! The kid inside of me was giddy for our imaginations to take charge and create. 

Two. Point. Five. minutes later, the train was torn in two, each child with a half of it and crying; the house tipped over, lifeless little bodies everywhere.  “Ahhhh” both toddlers yelled.

“Okay I give up” I sighed, as my whimpering toddlers wrestled the remaining village to the ground. “What should we do now?” I asked rhetorically.

“Go groceries?” Lela said jumping up with a smile.