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Tuesday
Jul142009
Ministry of This and That
Sam gave me a firm summer assignment. Mom, please read Harry Potter 6 before we see the movie. He carefully gathered a stack of the series and lovingly left them beside my bed over a year ago but now he's serious and so, finally, am I. I've been devouring the series for the past month or so, in between some grown-up reads here and there.
I know I'm about 9 years late to the party but I've been having a blast, especially since I have such an enthusastic 10-year-old cheering section, his face examining mine with an expression very close to the one I wore when I took the girls to their first Boston Ballet performance (isn't this great? do you love it as much as I do? how about now? and now?).
All of the fantastic titles make me smile: Ministry of Magic. Improper Use of Magic Office. Department of Magical Transport. Muggle-Worthy Excuse Committee. They remind me of AA Milne and his Winnie the Pooh books with their Very Important Capitalized Terminology. And then I started thinking. What would my ministry be? Where would I be assigned?
Department of Excessive Procrastination?
Dust bunny patrol? (actually, I'd probably be arrested by them...)
Office of Realistic Optimists?
Committee of Joy and Enthusiasm Seekers?
Maybe simply this: Ministry of Happy Childhoods {for all}. Pretty much encapsulates every thing I'm doing right now, from mom to working with the teenage girls at church to school work and research. I think all of us parents would be there, toiling away as Childhood Engineers or some such.
What about you? Any ministries or departments you would envision for yourself?
And you're all invited to join Monty Python's Ministry of Funny Walks with me:
Now that would be a great job:
"I have a silly walk and I'd like a government grant to help me develop it"
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Reader Comments (8)
My boys begged me out a similar endeavor: I just read all 5 Percy Jackson's in about 3 days. {Be quiet children, I did too throw food at you every once in a while...}
Loved them.
{ps-perfect description: do you love them now? what about now? how 'bout now? ...too funny!}
As you know, we are ardent Potter fans here. I CAN'T WAIT TIL WEDNESDAY! {I feel like I am 12 right now... It's awesome.}
I don't know if I'm fit to be minister over anything right now. Hmm. I'll have to think on that.
~loved the post. :)
This week I could definitely be the Ministry Department of Eating Everything in Sight. I'm telling you - my gut is busting with all the food I've eaten. And yet...I still keep eating. Maybe I'll change that to the Ministry Department of Unsolvable Food Mysteries.
Oh, and welcome to the HP party. Better late than never, old friend.
I too came late to the party...but the fun has been reading them back to back to back, and watching the dvds immediately after. I finished #6 last week, so this will be my first one on the big screen!
I am in charge The Ministry of Procrastination at my house!
I'm living in the Ministry of slothfulness today. Tomorrow it will probably turn into the ministry of procrastination. Really, where DO you come up with this stuff?!
Love it.
And VERY big Harry Potter fans live here. Excited, we ARE.
Just started reading the first one to my 7 and 6 year olds (they frighten easily, so I've held off for awhile). They are loving it and can't wait for the movie. The first movie. I'm sure they'd have nightmares with the later movies.
And I definitely headed up the Committee over Chronic Constipation this spring.
Chief Proprietor of Those Who Spend Entirely Too Much Time On The Computer Whilst Their Husbands And Children Are Out Of Town.
Otherwise known as the TWSETMTOTCWTHACAOOT.
that's me.
Now that I've dropped Twilight like an old piece of gum, I'd like to read the last three HP's. My kids love the movies but never got into the books. They can be daunting but oh so delicious. I think I'd be a part of Diet Coke Drinkers Anonymous and CEO of Do As Little As Possible. AKA DALAP Ahhh...ain't summer grand?!
Because of my 4-year-old. Not me.