My daughter Willa was using two wooden spoons to bang on a wooden chest we have in the laundry room, which is right next to our home office. You can imagine, at 3 years old, just how noisy she was. Several times we needed to ask her to take her drumming elsewhere because it was getting too loud, thanks to the addition of the clothes dryer to her "drum kit".
When it came time for me to get our oldest daughter from school, I quietly slipped my coat and boots on.
"Why you have your coat on, Momma?" Willa asked, glancing at me only briefly from her play.
I was running late so I vaguely replied, "Oh, I just need to go to the van for a minute."
"Why? Do you don't like my drummin'?"
Happy sweeping!
Kathleen Gunther
Editor, ContestHound.com
