"Mom? Remember this morning when you woke up and I asked you for some grape juice and you said, 'Just gimme a second'?"
"Yeah..."
"Well, you ALWAYS say 'gimme a second', and it's a LONG TIME."
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't do that. I should say 'a minute' if it's going to be longer."
"'GIMME A SECOND, GIMME A SECOND.' BLAH BLAH BLAH."
It would seem that the word of the week, according to Maddie, is "boring." Everything we do is booooring. Walks are booooring. Naps are boooring. Having to walk with your own two legs IN THE ZOO, WHERE WE WERE NICE ENOUGH TO TAKE YOU, is booooring. Not sure how I'm liking this latest development in her personality - the one where she begins not to like me so much anymore - but what can ya do. To be expected, of course. I just thought it wouldn't happen until... well, until she was in school most of the day, where she could do all the Not Liking Mom in other people's company, and save all the Loving Mom for me. :D It's not that she doesn't like me. It's just that I'm, well, "boooring." And this is hard for me to take, because if there's one negative adjective that has NEVER been attributed to yours truly (to my knowledge), it's "boring." Selfish? Yep. Blabbermouth? You betcha. Crazy? Duh. But boring? BORING?
You're on, kid. This means war.
Posted by stephanie at April 5, 2005 09:46 PM