Dingbat Mommy Strikes Again

I keep telling myself that I really am a smart person.  I got great grades in college and I even taught statistics at one point in my life.  But, for the life of me I cannot figure myself out sometimes.  Let me back up.

I've been looking for fun things to do outside with my kids.  So, my friend and co-author (we are almost finished with our book by the way.  I promise.), Susan Case, suggested that I put peanut butter on a pine cone and have the kids help me watch for birds.  I thought that sounded like a super idea so one day I got the kids all excited and they helped me find a pine cone from the backyard and then I smeared peanut butter all over it and we put it in the tree.  We waited.  And waited.  And waited.  No birds ever came.  The kids finally wandered away to find something else to do. 


Later that day, my Mom came to play with the kids.  I told her about our little problem.  She went over to inspect our work and started immediately laughing.

"Katie," she said.  "You didn't put any birdseed on here.  Did you really think the birds would just lick up this peanut butter?"

"Oh," I replied.  "Well I know how much the dogs like peanut butter.  Susan didn't say anything about birdseed, just peanut butter."

My Mom patted my back.  "I think she assumed you would know about the birdseed."

So, yes.  I am a dingbat Mommy.  If you look closely, you will notice not a drop of a birdseed on the picture above.  We went to the hardware store the next day and bought birdseed.  Now in this next picture you see just a subtle difference.  This time, birdseed is sprinkled on top.  And yes, this time the birds liked this much better and the kids really enjoyed watching the birds come peck at our home-made bird feeder.








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