Two Kid Stories This Morning

From the myspace archive.

Two Kid Stories This Morning
(written February 19, 2007)

First Story:
A few days ago, my children were fighting over some mardi gras beads that I gave my daughter to play dress-up with. They both love to play with them for different reasons, and the other morning, they wouldn't stop over these beads. Well, I distracted them by making them get dressed. We were going to go to the YMCA. They were excited. The fighting stopped. We went on with our day. As the kids and I are leaving the Y, my son is complaining to me that his foot hurts. I ask him if his boots are rubbing him, or if his socks are bunched up. He says, "No, my necklace hurts." "Your necklace?" I ask. "Yes, my necklace," he replies, most irritated that I'm not faster on the uptake. "You put the necklace in your shoe?" Well, he looked at me like I was the craziest mommy on the planet, and comes back with "No. In my sock." How could I be so stupid??

Second Story:
The kids played this morning while I slept in a little. So, naturally, both their bedroom and the living looks like they were both sources of a natural disaster. So, I told them that I was going to make pancakes for them if they would help me clean. My daughter gets upset and says "But Moooommm! I only have two hands!" I mean, how do I stand up to that argument?? So, I tell her, "Well, you're just going to have to learn to make due. Or I'll make broccoli for breakfast." She learned to work with her disability pretty quickly.