Learning

After Sunday morning service and class, we came home to eat at "Mom's Place." :o) Since it would still be a little bit before I had everything ready to eat, I was allowing the kids to get one SMALL snack. I cannot remember what MG and E chose, but it was not a huge snack (I think MG got some carrots). D-D decided she wanted some candy. All the candy that we have left from Halloween and Valentine's Day is Sweet-tarts. D-D dug through the candy bucket for a few minutes, pulled out one of the MANY tart packages and asked what it was. I told her and she said that she would rather have fruit chews.

After eating her chews she went for the tarts again and I told her, "No, D-D. Just one snack right now. You cannot have the candy, too."

It took several times of saying no and scolding her for whining before she finally gave up the fight for more snacks.

We had lunch. The kids played outside. They played with Dad. They watched a short show on TV. They watched me get dessert ready for group that night. Then, around 3 D-D comes to me as I am finishing the last of the dessert making and says, "May Oy have MOY sweet tahts now, please?"

"Certainly!" I say.

A huge sigh of relief and joy escapes from D-D and she says in her encouraging little voice, "NOW yore being noice! Good jobe, mwommy!"

mmmmmmmmmrrrrrrrrggg!!! No amount or simplicity of explaining could change her mind about how I treated her earlier ("woooohd-lee" in her opinion) .

So, I'm wondering...whose learning here? Me or her?

This is the face I made at her

when her back was turned.
ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!