Stream of Consciousness Saturday is brought to you every week by Linda Hill. Check out her blog for the rules and the contribution of other bloggers.
This week’s prompt:
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “new/old.” Use either or both of the words “new and old” any way you’d like. Bonus points for starting and ending with either one. Have fun!
Children are the best. They pick up on everything. When our granddaughter was just starting to crawl and walk she was like every other child. She was drawn to the tiniest little speck of anything on the floor and it went directly in her mouth.
One day, she found a dried up piece of macaroni that had fallen on the floor and her mom dashed to her and grabbed it before it made it to her mouth.
”That’s not good. It’s an old noodle”.
From that day forward, anything found on the floor was deemed an old noodle, not fit for consumption. Of course that left the door open for lots of new things to find their way into her mouth, toys, shoes, cat toys, you name it!
Sometimes I feel like an old noodle myself. 😂
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When I was young, i was never stopped from eating anything that dropped on the floor. My grandmother used to say, “Eat it, you need the germs to grow strong”. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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From someone who once loved the taste of dirt, I salute you! Nothing like strengthening the old immune system!
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Cute, Maggie.
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Thank you, Don. 😊
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First time my son, just at the crawling stage, saw the ocean (at Karachi, Pakistan) he crawled right in pausing only to shovel a handful of sand in his mouth. As Karachi’s port is probably one of the most polluted in the world it was no surprise he was seriously sick with dysentery by night time. No doubt it did strengthen his immune system!
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Oh, my! That must have been awful, Mary. Hopefully it prepared him to fight off future bugs!
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Truly grandchildren are the best 🙂 Whatever they do is wonderful 🙂
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I agree. They are so honest and adorable!
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Could have been worse. She might have stuck it in her nose.
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Oh, yikes. That is an awful nasty breeding ground snd the end result for so many kids! Yuck!
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I stuck turkey up my nose (I was about three) on Thanksgiving and they didn’t figure it out until Christmas…
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Man, oh man. That could not have been pleasant.
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Mom said it had started to putrify.
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Ugh!
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That’s pretty cute.
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😁
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i totally can relate, Maggie. we have a grandson who did just that. eat everything he could from the floor. lovely story! 🙂 🙂
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Thank you, Wilma.
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What a cute story! Little kids are great.
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Thank you for reading.
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Thanks!
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I often feel like an old noodle.
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Don’t we all?
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That hand to mouth drive must be a really powerful instinct. Some noodles get better with age though, or at least more interesting.
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Or crunchier!
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🙂
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She sure did!!! Lol…..
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Feeling like an old noodle is the most apt description of my mood I’ve heard lately. 😆
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Join my club!
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I remember wrangling with my daughter for a dust bunny! I feel like quite an old noodle.
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A common feeling among our age group, I fear.
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For sure.
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