Mark Twain if you were
still alive I would have sued your pants off for giving false hope.
Really I thought that that white
picket fence bullshit does not work.
I have been trying it
for years.
One of my daughters:
“What are you doing
Mom?”
Me:
“Oh it is so cool, I
am scrubbing this floor and look what happens it goes from brown to white.”
One of my daughters:
According to Mark she
is now supposed to say:
“Can I try?”
But what she says is:
“When you are done
with that, would you make crumpets?”
I put in a last ditch
effort:
“Look how much fun
this is don’t you want to try and then I will get started on the crumpets.”
She then says:
“I’ll pass”
Mark you can rest easy
wherever it is that you are buried, I am not planning to dig you up and pick a
fight with you anymore.
Yesterday morning this
happened:
I went to Michael and
said:
“I totally won’t mind
if you make breakfast, I won’t be in the least offended, just letting you
know.”
It worked he made a
lovely omelette but then I think the fact that he was hungry was a contributing
factor.
That was a brilliant way to get him to do something,, especially when he was humgry. But your comment about your daughter cracked me up. Like what kind of '50's world would we be living in (never mind Twain's era) for that to happen. 'Oh yes Mummy - let me help with all the hard messy work.' I can remember helping my my Mom bake , but that's SO not like mopping the floor and it was a challenge for her to get us to help & do the washing up.
ReplyDeleteSo al I can say is well done on this morning's small victory. For both of you actually.
PS. I love your site design, and the name.
ReplyDeleteThank you AK, I have never before been complemented on the name of my site. I thought it was pretty darnn clever myself. I do long for Stepford children but instead I have these non-robotic free thinking types that challenge me every step of the way.
ReplyDeleteThumbs up :)
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