Make a Note

The original nursery rhyme reads:

"Little Miss Muffet
Sat on her tuffet
Eating her curds and whey."

In 1976 our two-year-old son's version was:

"Little Miss Muffet
Sitted on she's tuffet
Eating her turds and way."  

We have laughed over that so many times and each time I once again marvel that for some whimsical reason, I kept a cheap little beige cardboard notebook in my kitchen drawer as the boys were growing up and recorded the cock-eyed sayings that tumbled out of  their mouths. Had I not done so, Miss Muffet's turds would be lost to the world! The perspective on life was dazzling then and even more so now. Fresh eyes.

Now, as the years pile up, I find I need to buy another such notebook to record my own thoughts, dazzling or not - or surely they will be gone by sundown.