Conversations with my daughter.

[rivka]

Alex: Why do you have to go to the doctor?

Me: Remember when I had to go to the hospital a while ago? After you've been in the hospital, your doctor usually needs to check to make sure everything is okay.

Alex: Does your tummy still hurt, Mama?

Me: No. I feel okay. But the doctor needs to check my insides to make sure everything is okay there.

Alex: But HOW are you going to take your OUTSIDES off?

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wish Alex were my child. Sometimes I wish Rivka were my mom. :)

(Mostly, I'm just happy she lets us watch.)

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wish Rivka were my mom.

Alex would like me to let you know some of my major, major flaws as a mother:

1. Mandated hair-, face-, and handwashing. Even in the face of such valid counterarguments as, "My teachers say I'm not allowed to wash hands for just pee."

2. At most two episodes of "Little Einsteins" per day, and more commonly it's just one. Our nation's youth are suffering from a severe deficit of "Little Einsteins," and I am part of the problem.

3. If you wake up at 3am hollering that you're hungry, and you are not an infant, I will not let you come downstairs. I will not even go down to the kitchen to fix you a snack. I will tell you to go back to sleep, and I will coldheartedly go back to sleep myself.

4. No wearing cowboy boots without socks.

[redbird]

I think I could live with that. (I have a pretty cool Mom, as it happens, but you'd have to come up with more than making me wash my face to convince me you're not a great mom.)