Brighteyes, my 13 3/4-year old is as tall as I am. We tease her about how long she's been waiting for that to happen.
She
and her 11-year old sister Sunshine have been drooling over bright,
colorful, expensive workout clothes, so after church yesterday we drove
to the JCPenney outlet store in Starkville where I found them two pair
of capri pants each, an identical set of two-toned pants and a
similar-but-not-identical set of solid-colored pants.
The girls
wear the same sizes, so everything we bought them could fit each girl.
Such is the discrepancy in sizing that one set was a "small" and the
other set a "large" but they all fit the same.
I found a solid
pair of hot pink capri pants that both girls loved and that fit them
both, but the only other pants in their size (and my price range) were
black. I bought both.
We had the following conversation in the car.
Me: We've got a pair of pink pants and a pair of black pants. Who wants the pink ones?
Chorus: Me!
Brighteyes washes the dishes and Sunshine dries them and puts them up.
Me: Okay, who's willing to both wash and put up the dishes for a week for the pink pants?
Chorus: Me!
Me: How about two weeks?
Sunshine: Me!
Dad: A bidding war.
Me: Brighteyes?
Brighteyes: She'll flood the kitchen like she did last time.
Me: If she does, she'll forfeit the pants and they'll go to you.
Dad: After you wash and put up the dishes for a week.
Me: Is that fair? Everyone agree to that?
Chorus: ...yeah....
We'll see how it goes.
3 comments:
That's fun parenting right there. I fear the day my daughter is my height. My son's almost there, but I think it'll be worse when I have to look up to my girl.
"After church" -- I had the idea that you were pagans. Have you changed your beliefs, are you going to church to avoid making enemies of your neighbors, or for other social purposes, or do you not want to go on record saying? In the last case, there's no need to reply, or even to leave this question up.
The UU church has no trouble with Pagans, Christians, Buddhists, atheists, or anyone else who behaves themselves well. They don't care what motivates you to act with compassion, as long as you act. http://uua.org/
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