41. Tillie Tuesday Dec. 7, 2021

It’s just another Tillie Tuesday,

I wish it were a snooze day,

But it’s my news day,

And just another Tillie Tuesday.

Tillie Tuesday, the “Hey, Mom and Dad, try to keep up” Edition.

Tillie, on quiet times of solitude

Tillie: Daddy, what are you exactly doing?

Me: I’m going to sit here by the fire, drink my coffee, and contemplate all the things I’ve done right in my life.

Tillie: Ugghhh! This is going to be boring!

Tillie, on urgency

“Daddy, can you please get my stuffy out of the closet? She’s been trapped in there for centuries!”

Tillie, on Barbies are so yesterday

Tillie: Daddy, a girl asked me to play with them but I don’t know if I should.

Me: Sounds great. I think you should! What are you going to play?

Tillie: We’re going to play “work.” I’m going to be Miss Hartfield.

Tillie, on never give up, just never give up

Me: I don’t think this blanket is going to work to build your fort large enough. Sorry.

Tillie: My fort will be closed for the rest of my life because someone gave up too soon.

Tillie, having gotten her crew to complete the fort

“Good thing we don’t have a pet elephant. It would crush the fort. Wait, would a baby elephant crush it?”

Tillie, on adding to the Christmas wish list

“Baby elephant.”

Tillie, on the consequences of singing like Buddy the Elf

Tillie: Daddy, from now on you are fired from singing. Only me and Mommy can sing.

Me: Wait, what? That’s not fair. Why do you get to sing and I don’t?

Tillie: Because you are a terrible singer…What? That’s the honest truth.

Tillie, on one hard boiled egg for breakfast

Me: Tillie, come brush your hair.

Tillie: But I was about to feast on something!

Tillie, on the shadow side of curiosity

Jeanne: (Unwrapping her new purchase) Do you know what these are, Tillie?

Tillie: No.

Jeanne: Do you care?

Tillie: No…(starts walking away but turns around) Okay, what are they?

Jeanne: They are special pillows that…

Tillie: Yeah, I’m bored with that.

Tillie, on a little help here

“Can you get my pillow? I’m hand-fulded.”

Tillie, using her Elsa (“Frozen”) powers

Thrusts her arms toward me; fingers outspread

“Ice-o-lation spell!”

And, finally,

Tillie, on the questions Marvel left unanswered

“Every time I see a superhero I wonder if they wear underwear. And what do they do if they have to go potty in the middle of a battle? Do they even have to go potty?”