Scene: In the car the other day.
Cordy: Mama, it will be Mother’s Day soon. What kind of present do you want?
Me: I don’t know. What do you think I’d like?
Mira: Mommy, you like flowers!
Me: Well, yeah, flowers are OK I guess.
Cordy: No, Mira! Mommy likes chocolates more! You want chocolates for Mother’s Day, right?
Me: Ummm…I am trying to diet…
Mira: Flowers! Mommy wants flowers!
Cordy: Chocolates!
Mira: Flooooowers!
Cordy: Chooooocolates!
Me: What about sleep? I’d like that for Mother’s Day.
Mira: Mommy, that’s not a present!
Me: Oh, you’d be surprised what mommies would consider presents…
Later…
Cordy: Mama, I know what your present will be! Us! We’re your presents, mommy!
Me: Well, yes, but actually, you’re the reason I get presents on Mother’s Day.
Cordy: (panic in her voice) But we can’t get you anything because the Toys R Us doesn’t have anything you like!
Me: Um…well, I guess that’s true…
Cordy: So if you don’t like anything from the Toys R Us, we won’t have anything to give you! Can’t you like a toy that we like, and then we can get you that?
Me: I think you’re missing the point now…
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After that conversation, I’m a little scared to think what will be waiting for me on Mother’s Day. It’ll either be nothing, flowers, chocolates, or a new Thomas & Friends train set with some easy reader Backyardigans books.
Note to self: teach my children what “spa” means and why mommies like it.
And I still argue that sleep can be a present.
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