tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89254512630517363222024-03-13T23:50:00.236-04:00Just Toddling ThroughA little precocious, a little rambunctious, always lots of fun.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger696125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-8428481666002769062020-11-04T12:22:00.000-05:002020-11-05T12:23:18.405-05:00Math As Anger Management<p><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Yesterday C told me that when she gets angry she thinks of weird improper fractions and simplifies them in her head and I couldn’t be more proud.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-88413992160666266462020-09-28T11:53:00.000-04:002020-09-28T11:53:02.303-04:00Adding Excitement<div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">C, picking a sticker for her chart: Look at that one!</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Me: It says "wow."</div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">C: No! It say "wooOOOOOooooOOOOw!" 'Cause there is an ekchermaiden point.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-32222659778839098202020-05-16T12:52:00.002-04:002020-05-16T12:52:28.406-04:00Life Would Be A DreamI look at C, who is sitting cross-legged on the bed, her head resting in her hands and elbows on her lap.<br />
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Me: Aw! Are you sad?<br />
C: No...I'm just trying to figure out how to get into a reverie. It's such a pleasant feeling!<br />
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(Literature, and Anne of Green Gables, FTW!)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-7712193864012906482020-03-13T09:00:00.001-04:002020-03-13T09:00:53.821-04:00Bizzy as a Bee<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">C: Momma, can you give me some milk in my cup?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Me: Not right now. I'm busy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">C: Will you give me some when you stop bizzing?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-66503845314772071742020-02-09T15:00:00.000-05:002020-02-10T09:10:42.269-05:00Happy Little Working SongAfter church I was practicing a song with a couple of friends when C came in.<br />
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C: Wow, Mom! You can sing! I didn’t know you had a nice voice! I thought you always sounded like, “Go clean your room!”Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-90651732822049990032019-10-29T12:20:00.000-04:002020-11-05T12:21:44.477-05:00Little Miss Muffet!<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was working on my iPad with C beside me when my phone rang. As I answered it, I looked toward C to let her know I’d be on the phone. There was something glinting in the light just above her head. As I squinted, I realized that it was a spider descending from the ceiling!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">That caller got a whole lot more than he bargained for! I’ve also never been as thankful for an interrupting phone call!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-40064487653323775302019-08-23T09:17:00.000-04:002020-08-23T09:17:58.591-04:00Lists<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Homeschooled kid at the end of August, reading a book about a school kid: Wow! That sounds like fun!</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mom: What?</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">HSKATEOARABAASK: A summer reading list! Can you make me one?</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mom: Well, what have you read this summer?</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">HSKATEOARABAASK: Oh, there have been so many that I’ve forgotten.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Mom: ...</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">HSKATEOARABAASK turns back to her book and forgets completely about the question.</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-91592511492204669352019-08-15T08:14:00.000-04:002020-08-15T08:15:16.138-04:00Talking With Hands In Your Mouth<p> Today we learned that ASL is very useful in the dentist’s office.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-76288395320748051772019-06-07T20:34:00.000-04:002020-06-07T08:34:35.602-04:00Studying The Classics<p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">We were sitting in the sand at the beach when C made a parenting suggestion.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;">C: So, Momma, I’ve been reading about reverse phisycology.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;">Me: You mean reverse psychology?</p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">C: Yes! Reverse psychology! I had a thought.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Me: What is it?</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">C: Well, you really should use reverse psychology on ME!</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">To my credit, I am now certain that I’ve thoroughly mastered the straight face!</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-65064476367923889102019-05-17T13:17:00.000-04:002020-05-17T07:18:17.705-04:00Shhhhhhh!<div class="_1dwg _1w_m _q7o" data-vc-ignore-dynamic="1" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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C: Mom, I wish I would have taken more naps when I was younger.</div>
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C: Yeah. Because then I would have more built-in energy and stuff now, you know?</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-45697539952241122372019-03-24T11:54:00.000-04:002020-03-24T11:54:39.664-04:00A Matter Of Expression<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">C: You know that saying, “that’s what they all say?”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Me: Yes.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">C: Why does everyone use it? I mean, they don’t ALL say anything.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Me: I hadn’t thought of that.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">C: Well, is it okay for a kid to say it?</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br />Me: I don’t know. Sometimes it can sound snarky.<br />C: What’s that mean?<br />Me: Well, sometimes people say that just to let the person they’re talking to know that they’re annoyed.<br />C: That’s what they all say.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-23404870867001209922019-02-05T10:00:00.000-05:002020-02-05T08:35:32.541-05:00She Misses Me!That time when you find a nice, quiet place outside of the home to work, so your nine year old obligingly sends you 57 audio files she's personally recorded for you.<br />
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...and now she's sending me pics of all the things she's not supposed to be doing! (Don’t worry, folks - they’re silly things like eating her toy food.)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-85183461354525349612018-07-17T07:26:00.000-04:002020-07-17T07:30:34.988-04:00What She Wants To Be<div>C's latest: Momma, some boys and girls think their moms are just mean and trying to control them. I try very hard not to be one of those girls.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-70535388955433489042018-07-13T08:42:00.001-04:002020-07-13T08:44:03.763-04:00My Age Is Showing<div>Like many kids, C enjoys watching Zoboomafoo and Wild Kratts. Recently she noticed how much older the Kratt Brothers look in WK, so she asked me to look up how old they are.</div><div><br /></div><div>Imagine her surprise to learn that Martin Kratt is 52 - same as me!</div><div><br /></div><div>"Well," she said to me, "I think they should be very happy with their life's work."</div><div><br /></div><div>Feeling very one-foot-in-the-grave-y today!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-89880185789081193322018-03-17T12:20:00.000-04:002020-03-17T12:21:01.392-04:00Stuffed On St. Patty’s DayC: Momma, what animal would represent St. Patrick's Day?<br />
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This explains why we are now picking fabric to make a stuffed snake!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-24317763790698418602017-08-19T07:49:00.000-04:002020-08-19T07:51:27.280-04:00Honesty Is Not Always The Best Policy<div>C is finishing up the thank you cards from her birthday presents. A few people gave her money, so she wrote, "Thank you for the wonderful card full of blessings!" inside. I was a little proud of her clever choice of wording there.</div><div><br /></div><div>Then it was time to write a card to two little boys, who had also given money. Apparently she thought her former words were too flowery. In this one she decided to write, "Thank you for the wonderful present. I love cash!"</div><div><br /></div><div>Fortunately, she loudly announces everything she writes, so I was able to stop her.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-10123238379624427612017-08-15T08:13:00.000-04:002020-08-15T08:13:50.988-04:00When You’re REALLY Old<p> C: What does deteriorate mean?</p><p>Me: To wear down slowly over time.</p><p>C: Oh...so like when I can't run as fast as I did when I was 6 or 7?</p><p>Me: Hah! No! Much older than that!</p><p>C: Oh! Like 15 or 16, then!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-3797087622196418552017-08-07T07:20:00.000-04:002020-08-07T07:21:20.200-04:00Truly Happy<p> C, who gets a Happy Meal from McDonald's every month or so, is SUPER EXCITED.</p><p><br /></p><p>Why?</p><p><br /></p><p>Because the company prints the next toy to be released on the bottom of the Happy Meal boxes. The next toy will be</p><p><br /></p><p>BOOKS!!!!!!!!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-69711433907846905102017-07-28T10:01:00.001-04:002020-07-28T10:01:41.073-04:00Plan B<div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C is having a birthday in a few days. We have a longstanding tradition of letting the birthday kid pick whatever cereal they want. C particularly likes Double Chocolate Krave. As we walked into the store, we had this conversation:</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C: What if they don't have any Krave? Oh, I know! I'll get Froot Loops!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Me: It's always good to have a back-up plan!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C: What if there aren't any Froot Loops?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Me: Then you can get Cocoa Puffs.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C: And what if there are no Cocoa Puffs? Maybe Cocoa Pebbles?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Me: Sounds good to me!</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C: And what if they got rid of all the fun cereals and there is absolutely nothing left?</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Me: Then we'll sit down in the middle of the cereal aisle and cry until they bring us some.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">C: It's always good to have a back-up plan!</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-42065328459368780422017-07-10T07:26:00.000-04:002020-07-10T07:26:51.595-04:00Hieroglyphics?<div>As we were driving in the car, C picked up a piece of paper that she'd made a list on.</div><div><br /></div><div>"Wow! One day a few years from now, I'm going to look at this piece of paper and think how much my writing has improved!"</div><div><br /></div><div>What an optimistic way to talk about messy handwriting!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-17172120759691094872017-07-03T10:02:00.000-04:002020-07-03T07:03:20.628-04:00Tangled Belle<div>I asked C several times to brush her hair, but she didn't. We were just running some non-public errands, though, so I let her get in the car as she was. As we drove, she began her usual conversation.</div><div><br /></div><div>C: Are we going anywhere after we drop H off?</div><div>Me: Just to church to pick up a few things. Then we'll go straight home.</div><div>C: That's it? Nowhere else?</div><div>Me: Nope. You want adventure in the great, wide somewhere?</div><div>C, sighing: Always. (Singing) I want much more than this provincial life!</div><div><Pause for thought></div><div>C: It's because my hair is a crazy mess, isn't it?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-77950588713308268132017-06-26T07:31:00.000-04:002020-06-26T07:32:09.153-04:00F-U-N T-I-M-E-S<div>C is on a spelling kick, and now only talks by spelling every word.</div><div><br /></div><div>In related news, I have discovered that my attention span is about as long as...what were we talking about?</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-23509044025872559732017-06-05T20:14:00.000-04:002020-06-05T08:14:49.235-04:00When School EndsToday was the first day that J and C didn't have their co-op classes. J had a lot of other work to do, but C had nothing in particular.<br />
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She spent about an hour and a half making pretend meals using construction paper, scissors, and glue. After she cleaned up her mess, she decided to write a story. She used the word processor on my iPad, and took nearly two hours to write it. Then she helped straighten the living room in case J's friend was able to come over (turned out that he couldn't, though).<br />
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In many ways, she's much harder to parent than either of her siblings were at her age (7 1/2). But neither of them would have had the drive to start such extended projects and see them through to completion.<br />
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Oh - and we had nachos for dinner. She doesn't care for them, so I warmed up some leftover meatballs. Feeling grateful, she decided to give me a compliment. "Momma, you're kind of pretty! And I hardly notice those grey hairs - or the other old-people things about you - I hardly notice them at all!"<br />
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All in all, it was a good day.<br />
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Her story:<br />
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Here is her story:<br />
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My dog [fiction story]<br />
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It was a sunny morning at 8:00. Everything seemed right. But there was one problem.<br />
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My dog was wailing, I am hungry!!! It was his feeding time. He was frustrated since his food was taking a very long time. But I was doing my chores . Then I decided to have a spot of tea and play a game with my brother. After a while I realized I should go and check on my dog. When I reached his doghouse, he was wailing , arooww! When I looked in his food and water dish I knew I should have fed him at 8:00.<br />
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So I say very softly , don't worry boy. But as soon as I get in I forget. Then I remember. I quickly sprint outside, grab his food and water dish, fill them up with puppy chow, and bring them outside.<br />
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When I get outside, my dog licks my face. Then he eats his puppy chow right down.<br />
The end.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925451263051736322.post-65492352266372916882017-03-30T17:29:00.000-04:002020-03-30T22:30:45.117-04:00Saying Goodbye<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
C: Mom, should I buy this little stuffed animal? I've wanted it for a very long time, and it's only $5!</div>
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Me: Well, I don't think you should. You have so many stuffed animals already that this one will probably just be forgotten in a few days.</div>
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C: But I have the money with me.</div>
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Me: Well, but later you might find something else that you want more.</div>
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C: I guess so. (Returns stuffed animal to rack, then returns.). Mom, I don't like putting stuffed animals back on the rack.</div>
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Me: It's hard.</div>
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C: Yes! Plus they look at you with such frustration and shame when you do it!</div>
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