Joe and Spot have gone onto greener pastures. Or maybe it's bluer waters? #1 took it hard. She was especially disgusted by the funeral arrangements I insisted on. I should have been more sensitive about the deep attachment #1 must have made with those fish in the 6 long days they were with us. They were practically family!
I accidentally killed about twenty of my precious tomatoes. Now this is a real reason to mourn! I was trying to turn a branch back so it would grow under the wire cone and SNAP! In shock I looked down at the severed branch and started counting all the tomatoes....19. All 19 cherry tomato lives flashed before my eyes. I could taste their sweetness and feel the fresh burst of juice as I bit into them. Their whole future, gone in a careless instant! Curses.
On the way to the bus stop this morning #3 asked Jimmy to hold her hand. He looked back at me and I nodded so he sweetly took her hand and they walked the rest of the way to the bus stop hand in hand. She didn't stop talking to him even as he waved to his own daughter getting on the bus. He laughed at all the right spots and encouraged her by asking her more questions. On our way back home, after an exaggerated farewell to Jimmy, #3 gave a big sigh and said contentedly, "Jimmy keeps getting gooder and gooder."
On the way home from baseball practice yesterday #2 pronounced, "Girls don't go to college. College is only for boys."
"Well, that's not true #2," I answered. "Lots of girls go to college. There's a girl in this car who went to college. That's right, it's me. And your Grandma J went to college and your Nana went to college. Dr. Stevenson who you saw today went to college. We are all girls and we all went to college."
It was too much for #1. She had to get in on this. In her best, I-know-more-than-you-do voice she explained to #2, "You have to go to college to get a job."
My turn, "Well, not exactly. There are lots of jobs you can do without going to college. But most jobs you would be interested doing require you to go to at least some college. For some jobs you have to go to lots and lots of college. Can you guess which jobs require the most college?"
#1 rolled her eyes like I had asked the dumbest question in the world. And just to show how smart she is she clicked these answers out in her best expert voice:
a teacher
a pilot
a lifeguard
So glad she's got it all figured out.
3 comments:
Guess you didn't know that ALL the 16-year-old lifeguards at the city pool have their Master's degrees. Duh.
Are you sure you didn't ask which jobs pay the lowest for time invested? Although I can't honestly say I've seen a lot of lifeguards giving it their all--except maybe working on their tans.
I am loving all of this! Isn't life with kids great?
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