Kid Fishing . . . when will it stop??

Ok, ok, I know. Fishing for ManChildren is a little-well-mean. Nuts? Crazy? . . . Fun? Yeah, it's fun.

To continue with the fun, I give you antenna balls. I have had antenna balls on my van since it was new (thanks to Suzan). I started for several reasons. One-its a red van and when it was new, there were a LOT of red vans around. One day I walked out of Sam's and saw 7 red vans all parked in a row (mine being in the middle). What to do to make it a little easier to find the van for me and my cute little manchildren? Well, put on an antenna ball. So, Suzan had the cutest Mickey Mouse antenna ball and she gave me one (actually many over the years).

Yeah, yeah, I "borrowed" this image.

As the ManChildren grew, their love of antenna balls waned. OK, they started to hate em. Now, you know what that means. Yep, time to put lots of different antenna balls up. Suzan gave me Mickey through the seasons. I had New Year's Mickey, Valentine Mickey, St. Patrick Mickey, 4th of July Mickey, Thanksgiving Mickey, and Christmas Mickey. I was in Mickey heaven, let me tell you!

One of the ManChildren particularly hated any antenna balls except for the basic black Mickey. I put a sparkly RED Mickey and it kept appearing in the kitchen, OFF the antenna. And then it was in the glove compartment. He never said anything, just took it off.

Yep

Then, Thanksgiving was close. Such a cute antenna ball. It was brown with a Pilgrim Hat. CUTE. He didn't notice for a couple days. Then . . . he took it off in front of me when I picked him up at school and handed it to me. I put it back on later. This went on until he told me he wouldn't get in the car if it was there. (Now, we know this was a empty threat-he wanted to go home). Finally, he got grumpy, so I relented (and it helped that Thanksgiving was almost over). He promptly gave it to Missy (the missing cat), and for some strange reason it became her all time favorite toy-she would carry it everywhere and play fetch with it.

This one too

Back to the present: I have a Mickey Christmas striped antenna ball now. I know, it's after Christmas. I ordered a new and pretty obnoxious ball in December from ebay. It never came. I contacted the seller. She reshipped. It never came.

Ditto


Guess what arrived yesterday?

Yep. My new antenna ball. *snicker*

I unpacked it and said the MC#1-hey look what I got.

YOU have to be KIDDING! (ooooh, how I love ManChild fishing)

#2 hasn't seen it yet. It is going on the van today. :)

He isn't allowed up there. He discovered it today when I was taking picture of "Jack". So I let him see "Jack" right before I told him, no no, kitty, let's get down (but I said it slightly differently)