Call me Afro-Dynamite!

So what is with this weather? I was anxious for winter to be over so it could warm up a bit. I didn't know it was going to skip spring and go straight to summer! It's not even really that hot yet but the friggin' humidity! I leave my house, feeling all sleek and sexy with my hair all flat-ironed and straight. Then, POOF, the minute I step outside my hair turns into puffball city!
Of course, with the heat comes the possibility that I may actually get some color in my cheeks as opposed to looking all pale and pasty. I tried those so called "Self-tanning lotions" but they actually expect you to put it on every single day. I want to be tan. I don't want to walk around feeling all icky and gooey.
Don't you sometimes wish you could just go back to when you were a kid. I don't mean the gawky teenage kid but the younger kid where the worse thing that could happen to you is that your mom made you finish your beets or something gross like that? I remember not really caring about how I looked. I just wanted to play. I wanted to go crawdad fishing with the neighborhood boys Lonnie Niswanger, Troy Don Swanner and Charlie Brown. We would tie bacon on the ends of string and lower it down into the crawdad hole by the railroad tracks. We didn't really know what to do with them once we caught them but we had fun.
I want to help my neighbor Lonnie turn my daddy's old shop-vac into a go cart and have him pull me up and down the street.
I want to play "Light as a feather, stiff as a board".
I want to play with my other neighbors, Tracy and Christy and pretend Bo and Luke Duke are our boyfriends.
I want to build a playhouse with a sign on the front that says "No Boys Aloud"
And yes, I want to try to dig to China!
I look at my son and I want to try to give him experiences from my childhood. I don't want him thinking the end all be all of everything is having the next hot new video game. I don't want him to be chained to the TV like I am. I want him to play and have fun and hopefully I will be able to experience a sort of second childhood myself.
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