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“But . . . but . . . I . . . want to show you something,” Katie says quietly. I have embarrassed her. She shows me a miniature Book of Mormon. Perfect for an eight-year-old to love. I finger the pages and listen to her tell me how her inactive grandmother found it when they were starting to paint. Katie asked if she could have it, and her grandmother obliged. The first person she wanted to tell about her new book was me, and I had yelled at her before she could show me.

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The Dodge

-I comes into the bedroom crying.

-I: “-J hit me!”

Justine: “Why’d she hit you?”

-I: “Just because I wouldn’t answer her question! I wouldn’t answer her so she whacked me! It’s not fair! She needs a punishment, right?”

Justine: “So, what’s -J going to say if we ask her?”

-I: “I don’t know. I just wouldn’t answer her mean, nasty question, so she hit me!”

Justine: “What did -J ask you?”

Long pause.

Justine: “-I, what did -J ask you?”

-I: “Well, she asked me why I spit at her.”

10 Comments

  1.  angie f :: 6 Aug 2008 @ 3:31 pm ::

    Oh! That so defintely could happen at my house, on any day among several combinations of siblings. It’s so reassuring to find I’m not alone in the world!

  2.  Maddison :: 6 Aug 2008 @ 4:55 pm ::

    Oh, this is is so “kids” that it hurts! LOL

  3.  Joal :: 6 Aug 2008 @ 5:53 pm ::

    It’s funny how -I tried to make an ally of you right away with the hitting=punishment equation. Good job digging into the situation. Kids.

  4.  Rachelle :: 6 Aug 2008 @ 11:17 pm ::

    So so so reality!

  5.  Maralise :: 7 Aug 2008 @ 12:17 am ::

    the quintessential tale of summer. classic.

  6.  mormonhermitmom :: 7 Aug 2008 @ 12:55 am ::

    Ooooh, that’s a good one. That’s one beam vs. one mote.

  7.  Zina :: 7 Aug 2008 @ 2:28 pm ::

    This would happen at my house, too. Very funny.

    Yesterday when I was being a horrible mean mother (by making my kids do chores) my 8-year-old was shouting at me, “Why do you always have to be SO MEAN?!! JUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!!” (I declined to answer the question.)

  8.  elizabeth-w :: 7 Aug 2008 @ 5:24 pm ::

    18 more days until school starts.

  9.  Raschel :: 8 Aug 2008 @ 2:46 am ::

    That’s so funny it sound just like my kids and they’re only two and four… I guess I have a lot to look forward to.

  10.  Jennifer B. :: 9 Aug 2008 @ 10:42 am ::

    Thanks for the smile. You perked up my day.

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Detail of painting "Letitia and Sophie" by Cassandra Barney, one of our Featured Artists of the Spring 2008 issue

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