Today is chips day and saturday is sweet day. This is a simple house rule but hard to follow. Look where you go. Watch your steps. Slippers are left outside. Follow the rules.
The first one is for the grandfather since he can be lavish and is prone to host a feast daily. I copied Marie's weekly menu. The funnygirls get their dose of sweets
on Saturdays.
Justo bumps into corners because he looks the other way when walking. He is a hopeless "uzi". There was no need to tell others to watch their steps until Justo.
A cockroach or two used to but when babies began to crawl on my floor, no other living thing survived when spotted.
Everyone learned to leave the damned slippers outside including the fathers of these babies.
Of course following the rules is a rule. It is a contract. It is a love agreement whether they all agree or not!
Nobody wants to be put back together with nylon or silk or gold stitches. Or mangled under a running vehicle dear God forbid!!! So watch where you go.
The only thing that can grow wild and unlimited is imagination. Sadly there is no pill for it.
Jacob asked me last night: "should we always be wearing pajamas even in summer?" That is because he had been wearing pajamas nightly ever since he can remember. This was no rule but because it was consistent, he thought it was.
Rules become habits when consistent. The set of rules that are observed consistenly under a specific condition they were created become a habit and a way of life.
Rules are meant to be purposeful and logical:
why leave your slippers by the door when the floor is dirtier than your slippers?
if stores don't sell chips everyday then it wouldn't be a problem. It is in every mini mart that operates 24/7. Given that it's bad and also....good in a bad way.
Oh and more from Ka Justo to Jacob when he woke up:
don't panic
Walang reklamo ( no complaints)
No whining
just musing..
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