I was driving in the car with all three kids last week and Sarah noticed that the digital clock read 3:33. So I started one of my "when I was a kid" stories, which they actually like right now instead of roll their eyes at, and told them how I used to make a wish when all the numbers on the clock were the same but if you looked back before it turned to the next minute, say 3:34, that your wish didn't come true. They asked me a ton of questions and then we discussed all the technicalities and how 10:10 and 12:12 didn't count because they weren't all the same digit but 11:11 did.
A few days later I was driving Sarah and her friend, Julia, home from Girl Scout camp. Somehow they got on the subject of the clock and wish making and Sarah started explaining it to Julia just as I had explained it to her. Andy and Amanda were in the car as well, piping in to give clarifications on the "rules". Since Andy is now 5'3" and over 130 pounds (crazy, right?) he was in the front seat next to me. As we're listening to Sarah explain to Julia that 12:12 doesn't count, Andy tells me how that morning he looked at the clock at 5:55 and it was really hard not to look back for an entire minute.
I looked at him and asked if he made a wish. His response? "Of course I did!" Man, how I love to pass on these stupid, little, crazy things to my kids and see them embrace them wholeheartedly. It put a huge smile on my face.
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