Within minutes of arriving at my house, Beaner’s wee one requested to play Tiddledy Winks, “I love this game. I haven’t played it since I was a kid!” “Really? How old were you when you played it last?” I asked. “I was three. Now I’m five,” she replied.
Minutes later she was over Tiddledy Winks, Connect Four, Operation and Perfection. “Let’s exercise,” she said, put her exercise pants on over her tights and skirt, then grabbed her weights out of her backpack and began doing ‘jumping jack lifting.’
I haven’t wanted to exercise since I was a kid and ‘Go you chicken fat, go,’ was popular. I also have not been able to wear my exercise pants over my skirt and tights since I was a kid and my neighbor and I decided to wear fleece baggy sweatsuits over our outfits, cover our shoes with the bottom of the sweatpants, and run across the basketball court yelling, “Hey, Kool Aid!”