Angus and I were at a yard sale three weeks ago and found his new favourite book, Sheep in Jeep.  Now that we’ve read it a million times we’re liking this equanimous bunch of sheep who keep messing up.   The sheep get in their jeep and head down a hill that’s too steep.  And yup, you got it, they go thud in the mud.  So when they try to tug it out and that doesn’t work they just shrug.  And when we read that part Gussie says, “Nevah mind.”  He’s two and he gets it. 

Sometimes you’re best off saying “never mind” and going on to the next thing.  In this case the sheep yelp and get help.  They get the jeep out of the mud but in their joy they proceed to drive the jeep into a tree.  But again, it’s no biggie, they sweep the heap and (spoiler alert!) sell it cheap.  These dudes are ok with whatever happens.  Even though what happens is their own damn fault.  There’s no blame, they just get on with it.

This a.m. HoneyBunny was asking my advice on a conundrum he’s in.  He messed something up trying to fix it and he’s kicking himself a little for it.  So we talked through some options and we didn’t really find any.  So I finally said, ok bud, you gotta just do a sheep-shrug and say “never mind”.  He knows the sheep, he can recite the book too.  He nodded seriously and said, “yup, nevah mind.”