We got home tonight at about 8:00 which is very close to Brittain’s 8:30 bedtime. Our new sitter for the summer is coming for the first time tomorrow so I felt that I really needed to do some vacuuming before Brittain headed to bed (so that I would appear to be the perfect housewife and mother). As usual, Brittain did NOT want me vacuuming, so I did what any good mother would do and occupied her by giving her her favorite food – fruit snacks. She’s truly obsessed with these things. To begin with it was just the Gerber Graduates fruit snacks, but now she will accept nothing less than the fruit snacks with the Princesses on the package. I gave them to her and quickly went into the kitchen to vacuum. I was interrupted about 45 seconds later when she walked in and said something to me. I turned off the vacuum so that I could hear her and she said, “I want some more princess fruit snacks.” I explained, “Brittain, you can’t keep eating fruit snacks. I can’t keep giving you fruit snacks all day. You have to eat other things.” She took a couple of steps to the side and said, “SHOOT.” There was a brief pause. She then put her hand on her hip, looked at me and said, “How ’bout some marshmallows?”
I couldn’t resist. “Yes, my love, you may have some marshmallows.”
