I don't want to be awesome!
(written January 18, 2007)
Today, I picked the kids up from daycare and had to bring them with me to the performance hall. We had a concert tonight and I had a sitter issue (meaning, I didn't have one for the night). So, I'm talking to them in the car about how quiet they will have to be when the music starts. They start telling me how good they are going to be, and how they are going to listen to the music and be very quiet and help me because they love me. Then, they start arguing over who loves me more. This is not a real argument. This is a playful banter that we all get into at least once a day. So, I jump in with "HEY!" Silence from the backseat. "How did you get so awesome??" Again, a moment of silence. Then my daughter, near tears, says "But I don't want to be awesome. I want to be pretty." Was I wrong to laugh so hard?
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