September was going to be my month to get back on the wagon so to speak for writing on this thing. And then school started and hoo-boy! I'm running and running and running and still I can't catch up. My goal was to get the mountain of dishes done today, but it still isn't done. I know it's bad when there aren't any spoons left. I didn't get it all done before Lee woke up from his nap. There is really no point in cleaning the kitchen while Lee is in it. Charlotte had violin lesson today and it went really well, but we committed to practice every day and today's practice was supposed to happen after dinner. You know, the dinner where Lee decided to not eat anything but cottage cheese, but mostly he just smeared it all over the table. The practice time where Charlotte wasn't all that interested, but Greg was desperately hurt that he wasn't being included. Half way through I gave up and included him which made practice take longer.
All of which to say that we're still working out the kinks. One of these days I'll get the chore chart together and mornings will actually get accomplished.
So even though I have no real point to this post I wanted to record a small conversation I had with Charlotte after school her first day.
Charlotte: I realized today that some people are just mean people.
Me: what happened?
Charlotte: there were just some kids that were mean.
Me: how do you know they were mean?
Charlotte: first of all, they were using mean words. Second of all, they were using mean voices.
Me: what did you do?
Charlotte: I just ignored them. Some people are just mean.
It seemed so grown up to me for her to realize that sometimes what other people do has less to do with her and more to do with them.
2 comments:
I love her. And I love her comment about the Budgers. I have already started talking to Gunner about mean people and Budgers in hopes that he won't be one of them when he gets in school.
Also, I think we ought to work out a system where I do your dishes, and you do my laundry.
What a blessing
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