for sale

For sale:

ONE FOUR-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER.

-comes with clothing and 13 puzzles.

*Warning:

This child is prone to selective hearing, sitting on her baby sister, touching "no" items, screaming, and drinking an unbelievable amount of apple Juice daily.

Okay. It was a bad day. Can you tell? Maybe I'll put off selling her for another day. Afterall, it's not so bad now that she's alseep. But I stayed relatively calm, and did not weep or sob at all! *whohoo!* Points for me! I got really mad when she went out into the back lane after I had told her how dangerous it is

A) she could get hit by a car

B) or hurt by a mean person

I explained these 2 reasons over and over. I swear, i repeated them a dozen times. But she still disobeyed. She was with a "gang" of her friends. Literally, there is now a gang of them. Nathan, Sam, Maggie, Amber, Courtney, and Anneka. Granted, she was safe in the "gang", however, 4-year-olds simply SHOULDN'T go on any street, or BE IN A GANG, for pete's sake! Life in the West End of Winnipeg. Golly.

I also found them all munching on crab-apples that Anneka claimed were "Delicious". Those would be STOLEN from the backyard of a house 5 doors down. A) too far to go away from home and B) Accessed thru the BACK LANE! and hello...STOLEN!

So Anneka was carried inside by a very stern looking blonde mommy (moi) and put in a couple time-outs throughout the day. I took away every privilege known to kid-dom....just short of giving bread and water.

But in the words of Scarlet O'Hara.....Tomorrow is Another Day.

ps...did I mention that Jason is out of town this week? (aggghhhhh)