If I Were Six For A Day...

Good morning, dear readers!  Are you ready for our July link up?  Go, write your post and then come back to share it!  I want to see how you'd spend your day if you could be six years old again.

Now, my wonderful sponsors helped me come up with this topic, so I absolutely encourage you to read their posts especially and to follow them - they're all fantastic women with really engaging blogging voices.  Just to remind you who they are, we've got Belinda from Found Love, Now What?, who guest posted for a Wedding Wednesday here a few weeks ago, Nicola from So We Live Forever, who stopped by last weekend with a Sunday Currently, Julie from J Bound, Whitney from Observant Turtle, and Megan from Elbowglitter.  Okay, ready?  But wait.  First you have to watch this video of a puppy sliding on its belly down a flight of stairs.  Then we'll get to my day as a six year old!

When I was a child, I ate a bowl of dry Special K for breakfast with a glass of water.  No, I wasn't in jail.  I was just strange.  But if I were a twenty-something pretending to be six, I'd definitely start the day with a pancake face.  (Are you following me on Instagram?  This will be a lot more fun if you are!)  I'd probably let Charlie lick the syrup off my fingers when I'd finished, and then we'd get down on the carpet for some tug of war.

My mom let me dress myself when I was little, and she said I always surprised her by putting together outfits that she'd never have imagined would work... but they did.  I wonder what I can come up with today?  I did like dresses, which was a huge problem because I had to wear shorts to summer camp, but I get to make the rules now since I'm a grown up six year old.  However, I do have to wear something that can get dirty, because of the roughhousing with Charlie after breakfast.

In fact, I think we'll spend the morning playing!  We'll go to the park and run around for a while and then go find the swings.  I love the swings.  They confuse Charlie.  It's funny.  But he does like jumping on me when I come down the slide!  (Yes, I know all of this from my time spent as an adult.  What?  I love playgrounds!)  When we get back home, we'll probably need to cool off by running though the sprinklers and sitting in the kiddie pool.

Then it will be lunch time.  Even now, more than 20 years later, I think that a classic lunch is a sandwich with a bag of chips and an apple and a cookie, so I'll make turkey and cheese with mayo and lettuce on rye plus Baked Lays, which they actually didn't have when I was a kid but for some reason I remember always getting Sunchips in camp lunches and hating them so, again, I can do whatever I want because I'm a grown up six year old.  As for the cookie... I'm thinking oatmeal raisin.

I'll probably want to curl up with a book for a while after that.  Cross my heart, half of the photos of me as an elementary schooler are of me sprawled in an armchair in the living room with a book.  If I really were six, I'd be reading The Boxcar Children.  Since I'm not, I'll go for The Dog Stars, which I just bought last weekend.  Eventually, I'll probably nod off.  You're never too old for a nap, you know?

The rest of the afternoon will be for arts and crafts.  I don't think I was ever big on drawing, but I do remember being a friendship bracelet fanatic.  I got really good at Chinese Staircase one summer!  These days I'm working on a needlepoint for Jon's mother, but that uses the same thread as friendship bracelets so it totally still works for the theme of the day.

Dinner will be a hamburger plus corn on the cob - if I had a loose tooth I'd have to ask my mom to cut the kernels off, so thank goodness I'm a grown up six year old.  Afterwards, I'll probably need to take a bath.  It's been a long busy day and I'll be a mess by the end of it!  Then I'll crawl into bed (wearing a nightgown, obviously) and, after a few more pages of my book, will be out like a light with Charlie stretched out next to me.  Being six is hard work, you know!