Life With Minions

At one time in my life I wanted to be a writer.  Then I wanted to be a photo-journalist.  I always wanted to be a momma.  I also wanted to be a gypsy and a circus arialist. I wanted to do and try and be so many things, I got side-tracked.  For about 20 years.  Then I found, after I became a momma, that I still wanted to be the all those things I wanted to be.  Writer.  Journaler.  Photographer.  As a momma, I was all of those! (I also like to make up words, like Journaler.  I don't consider myself a Journalist.)
I read a lot of momma-type blogs.  I like to know that there are other mommas out there that are about as crazy as I am.  Although I had toyed with the idea of keeping a blog so that my family, who is spread out all over the country, could keep up with our family events, it never occurred to me to keep a momma blog until the night of the "Opposite Day Shenanigans."  I had posted the conversation on my personal Facebook page, and I was overwhelmed and surprised at the response!  The conversation with my two oldest minions went something like this:

Small Minion: Can I take the baby to bed with me?
Me: Of course you can't.
Small: Oh, good, because it's Opposite Day, so I can!
Me: But if it was Opposite Day, and you wanted to take the baby to bed, you would have to ask me if you could leave him downstairs with me.
Mini-minion: Can we leave the baby downstairs with you?
Me: Yes, of course you can.
Mini: ......So we can?
Me: Yes
Small: Wait, what does that mean in opposite?
Me: It's not Opposite Day.
Minions: What?
Me: If it was Opposite Day, you would have to say that it's NOT Opposite Day. So if you say it's Opposite Day, and it is, that means it's not Opposite Day.
Mini: But what if it's not Opposite Day?
Me: Then you say it's not Opposite Day.
(Silent Pause.......)
Small: Um, can I just go to bed?

I have to admit, that this is only one of many Opposite Day conversations.  It is, however, the only one I have "won."  If you think it's easy to "win" a "logic" conversation with a 6 & 7 year old, you don't have a 6 or 7 year old!

Regardless, having this conversation, and the subsequent response to my posting it, kind of firmed-up a thought I had been having.  One to start my own momma-blog.  Because my minions are darned funny!  And if I can help even one momma see that she is not alone on this crazy road we call parenting, then sharing my minion-stories have been a success!