For her writing assignment today, I asked Jayla to finish this sentence, then write a follow up paragraph: "I will live with my mother forever because....."
She's not doing it. To top it off, there is a whole big bunch of eye rolling and sighing and theatrical throwing of the head back in pure exasperation with her ridiculous maternal figure and stuff like that going on. I can not imagine what's got her so annoyed?
Earlier today:
Me: "Sometimes I feel like the luckiest person on earth." (Because oh my goodness I like myself some Deutsch kids and have a heart full of happy love for them.)
Jayla (a.k.a. the girl who will live with mommy forever): "Me too."
Me: "Really, like when?"
Her: "When I sit down to eat and I think about how much food we have and also when I look at the pictures of orphaned kids on the computer."
Awww, that's my baby sugar cube sweet cheeks, sniff sniff. I could just squeeze that dramatic young lady who wrote (in place of her excellent assignment) me a letter about how she simply COULD NOT live with me forever because she would like to have her own family (we could all live together!), although she loves me lots and lots since I am the best mom ever. She then flew it to me in paper airplane form.
Alright, fine. But I don't have to like it....and I don't know what else to do to convince her that living at home when you're all grown up is cool, so I'm rolling my eyes and looking up at the ceiling as I sigh.
*Blogging while I should be on break to fill the literal ache that waiting is producing and busyness with the to do list is not curing.*
3 comments:
Love this post! So cute.
You are too cute! Sounds to me like you have a logical thinking child! Yet, she has an imagination...much like you did as a young'un!
Although I don't always make comments, I'm still reading your blog! ;-) Looks like you had a fun 4th weekend. And now, you enter the waiting game. Ah - so fun, waiting. Why can waiting be so absolutely painful?? Can't wait to hear what you might hear about an Ethiopian boy!
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