Basic Mom Week in Review - 01/24/16

5 Things That Actually Happened This Week and the Lessons I Learned

1. I found a magic wand in the cupboard when I opened it to grab the olive oil.

Lesson: Did my 2-year-old just make a subtle jab at my cooking?

2. This conversation between my 6-year-old and my 2-year-old while my 6-year-old was eating a Snack Pack that someone brought to school as a birthday treat:

2-Year-Old: What's that?

6-Year-Old: It's pudding.

2-Year-Old: What's that?

6-Year-Old: It's just like yogurt, but it tastes good.

Lesson: You know like how I eat Doritos because they are just like kale, but they taste good. Wait, that's wrong, isn't it?

3. I gave my 2-year-old a box full of all kinds of stickers (animals, princesses, flowers, mermaids, balloons, etc.) to decorate her sister's birthday card. I specifically buried the sheets of letter stickers on the bottom because I thought they would be useless and unexciting to someone who doesn't know how to spell. She passed over all the colorful, fun stickers, and only used the letters.

Lesson: I can count on my 2-year-old to defy my expectations.

4. My daughter's first grade class was working on persuasive writing this week. We got a letter requesting her own playground. We won't have to worry if "the suplise is to exspeniv" because she "can help pay with [her] mony."

Lesson: My daughter thinks a personal playground costs somewhere around $53 cash, a $25 Toys'R'Us giftcard, and about a quarter-piggy-bank-full of change.

5. While I was at my daughter's school helping first graders with writing, a boy I was working with spotted something on the floor next to his chair, reached down, picked it up, and said, "Cool, I can stab things with this!" (Don't worry, I confiscated it so I could take a picture of it as soon as I got to my car):