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July 20, 2005

Be still, my vassal

My dear sweet child, my darling baby girl... How I am floored by thee.
Just a few moments ago, as I stood over a heaping basket of clothes, most of them belonging to the children, folding and hanging at a fevered pace, my darling daughter came into my room. I gave her a plastic bag and asked her to pick up the trash that she and her brother had littered the floor with, mostly drawing papers and bits of candy wrappers.
She bounced up and gleefully grabbed the bag, in an obvious gesture of gratitude for me seeing to her every need, every single day of her little life. NOT. Nay, she dropped to her knees, bag in her hand, and started crying. Not just any crying mind you, she had to articulate. "I don't want to do this."
To Which I explained "Well, I don't want to do laundry, either, but we have to get it done." This is where I pat myself on the back in my mind, for coming up with a perfectly logical response to her protest. Much to my surprise, my logic fell upon deaf ears, maybe due to the fact that she was crocodile crying to drown me out.
Then she said it... "I can't believe you are using me as your slave!"
Hold for the dramatic pause, as I checked with my ears and, yes, in fact, she DID just say that.
Are you kidding me?! Slave? SLAVE?! USING?!
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Holy shit, hold up! My brain was a whir of reactions- like a computer looking for a solution to a problem amongst a million possibilities- going down the list. I dropped the shirt I was hanging back into the basket, and whipped around to face her. Did she take note of my bewilderment? Of course not. She was still whimpering out what was now a long string of nonsensical blubber. All of which, I am sure, was somehow characterizing me as a modern day Simon LeGree. I was still stupefied and had little response to the comment of her serfdom.
Without much comment, I took the bag from her, and told her to go take a nap, and that she hurt my feelings by saying that. Her wailing only became louder as she screamed down the hallway "You don't love meeeeee...." and then the door closing behind her.
There have been many days that my kid's comments or actions have caught me completely off guard, either with the outrageousness or cuteness of it all. Nothing like this.
Since the event, she has come to me and apologized for "Taying that, and hourting yo feelins".
What is it... that saying about the mouths of babes?
What am I to do with those kids?

Posted by TheFreud at July 20, 2005 11:14 AM

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Well, I don't know where to go from here. Heidi

Posted by: Heidi at July 20, 2005 8:53 PM

All you can do is love them all that much more and HOPE they turn out as well as you did... WE had some trying times with you too when you hit your rebellious teen years, but you turned out ok. I"m pretty sure Rachel will too, cause she has loving parents, just like you did...
Love,
Dad

Posted by: Prplneon at July 20, 2005 9:56 PM

My rebellious Teen Years?
Are you Kidding?
I had all of one.... and it was after I turned 18.
You two got off easy.

Posted by: MsF at July 21, 2005 8:59 AM

You thought we got off easy? HA HA HA...and yea..HA! Because you were only a child of one, we had to make sure you came out NORMAL..whatever normal was at that time..we only had one chance. Rachel is so very much liek you in many, MANY ways, when you were that age, its almost scarey..her independence, her attitude and the way she thinks and how she carries out her little "maybe this will work on Mommy" plots and schemes. She's forward and direct in the way she accomplishes her exploits...just like you did and still do...LMAO!! If memeory serves me right, I can remember a day when you were 4 and you told me that you hated me and that refused to be a slave!! Pretty scarey stuff don't you think? My feelings and my heart was broken too..but you came back with tears running down your cheeks and queitly crawled onto my lap, wrapped your arms around my neck, softly sobbing and proceeded to fall asleep...THAT was the best apology I ever got.. :`}

Posted by: Mom at July 21, 2005 1:54 PM

I've heard rumors that you can take them back if they're defective but nobody will tell me where...

Posted by: Utenzi at July 21, 2005 9:45 PM

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