This girl is AWESOME! She has the best sense of humor you can ever imagine from a kid. Plus, she “gets it” one of those people who just get life. You don’t have to explain anything twice to her. Street smart AND book smart all in one!
Yesterday she hands me signups and paper work from school begging for money again for something. I read through and see that we need to buy tickets to an upcoming program. The next part is something that MAKES me CRAZY…. they want us to purchase our kids craft projects. Aren’t we already paying for the supplies anyway? Whatever happened to bringing your art work home and hanging it on the fridge, now I have to pay for it if I want it. This time they wanted me to buy an ornament that they made for $5. We were going to the function and I didn’t want the kids to be sad that I didn’t want their amazing craft project. So, I wrote out a check for the entrance fee, plus another $15 for the 3 kids I have at this school, so we can take home the ornaments that they made. I handed her a check to stick in her backpack and wondered why no one told me how much it costs to have kids 🙂
Tonight at dinner she turns to me…
“Mom, do you know what the dumbest thing EVER is?”
Laughing, my husband and I look at her and say, “No. Tell us what is really dumb?”
“We made these really dumb ornaments at school the other day, and they want you to BUY them!” she says shaking her head and laughing.
“WHAT? I bought one!”
“You did, why would you do that?” she asks.
“You wanted me to, it was on the sheet you gave me yesterday. I wrote the check and gave it to you!” I explain.
“Oh, MOM! Are you kidding me? It was pipe cleaners, and it looked like a porcupine! We have all the stuff here to make one, I could go to Walmart and spend $5 and get enough stuff to make like 500 of them! It is such a RIP OFF, I can’t believe you PAID for that. What a waste of money.”
She walked away shaking her head at me.
That, is why I LIKE that girl!