Random thoughts

10 year old to mom: daddy treats me like a two year old
Mom: maybe you should start acting your age

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Homework with my child, who apparently needed some (unusual for her) hand-holding (aka attention from mom- (not unusual)) I can't sit still during this drawn out procedure and grab a Clorox wipe and start getting at the fingerprints all across the walls and door ways, patiently answering all the questions with questions (as I am not smarter than a 5th grader) and intentionally saying descriptive terms to get her to look for her own answers. And as if I am not paying attention (because I am not looking at her while she is thinking and making up stuff )-- I get the dramatic head and arms thrown back while she says, "Oh my gosh, mom, you are OBSESSED with cleaning!"  (Any of you who know me knows this is a gross overstatement of my cleaning prowess). I stifle my laughter with a sigh (while my thoughts are going 1000 miles a minute, basically saying, yeah, like anyone would believe that!) I gently, pointedly, ask her to tell that to her father when he gets home!


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Yesterday after school, I make the boy a PB&J. The girl just starts over reacting cuz HE is MAKING me do stuff that I am not supposed to do!!! It went like this, "Are you hungry, what would you like for a snack?" "PB&J" "OK". (AS you can see, no forcefulness involved.)

She started in on how the boy has two legs and hands, he should be able to make his own sandwich, (I don't disagree) just like she did when she was 7! (yeah, she was happy to do anything on her own as soon as she could). She was appalled that he would stoop to that level AND that I, her mother of all people!, would even remotely entertain the idea! She just knew I was being taken advantage of and would not have any of that!

After listening, quizzically looking at this crazy 10 year old feminist, I just said, "Chill."
I appreciate the thought, but really-- over an after school snack? 

The boy, who initially was going to try to defend himself, politely took the sandwich and walked away.

Cowboys

Hello,

So in the mist of after school rush and fast food for dinner, me, the girl and the boy are in the car on the way home for a brief stop before Tae Kwon Do and swimming.... the girl has finished her meal already and takes a big dramatic (is there any other kind with her?) sigh. Her head is off to the side and her eyes closed. While driving, and hopefully paying attention to the road as much as I believe I am while stuffing french fries into my mouth, I ask if she was tired with all the activities going on, I look over after a beat of silence and see that her eyes are shut. I go about driving and stuffing and dipping and stuffing oh, and driving.... (perhaps in hindsight I shouldn't have been so distracted....hmmm) Ok, I'm quietly chewing, lost in my own thoughts, the boy is just fine, happily eating his nuggets and fries....

Then, the girls left hand flies up in a "talk to the hand" flurry. She sits straight up and looks directly at me and says (with half her face sagging down as if she has bells palsy, and super slow-like), "I don't really like it when cowboys talk out the side their mouth like this." Oh! O.K. She continues, with a perfect southern drawl by the way, "They sound funny and it's like the one side of their face is all smooooshed down and it dudn't work". I laugh, what else? "How do they talk like that? I mean, it's like hard to talk that way." Then to accentuate the hilarity of the moment she says, "Wol, hat dig-it-T-y, der dig" again in perfect southern drawl. Her face of course, this whole time still looking like it got stung by a scorpion and was drooping down to her neck.

So, now we know. The girl don't know why cowboys talk like that.