Today was NOT an easy day. Do you think it is possible to get banned from a grocery store? I fear it might be, and every time I walk into my neighborhood Market of Choice with my three kids I think that there is someone behind the phoeny mirror which hides control central, shaking his head and vowing that THIS is my last time in their fine establishment. The short version is my kids were little monsters, and the entire time I wondered what parenting book I needed to buy on Amazon and have overnighted so that perhaps tomorrow (after the timely UPS man showed up) just might be salvable.
This all leads up to my question to Lucia last night. "Lucia?" I asked in all honesty, pleading for an answer I could work with, "Why don't you listen to mommy?" She replied, "I not want to", with a demure tilt of her cute 3 1/2 year old head. I kept my cool and asked the next crucial research question, "Why not?" To which she replied, with all the earnestness and sweetness possible, "I just wanna have fun mamma."
Hhhhmmmm, so it looks like Cyndi Lauper was on to something, it is in fact true, that girls may just want to have fun. I think this was the same answer I gave my mom when I snuck out at 16 to go drink wine coolers at the reservoir with my friends. And it may have been the same thing I told my husband after a post-three-cosmopolitan shopping spree. I'm sensing a pattern here......Signed, ME {lv}
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