Hey.
Sorry it’s been a little quiet around here lately. Last week, we were in New York City, having one of the greatest trips of our lives (can’t recommend Back to the Future: The Musical highly enough! (also, in the six days we spent in NYC, I visited Times Square more times than I did in my decade living in the City, giving the phrase, “I’ll do anything for my kids” a whole new meaning)).
This week, the little one’s daycare is closed and we decided not to put the big one in camp, to give him a bit of a decompression week before he starts first grade (!?!?) on Monday.
So as you can assume, it’s a bit too hectic here to be writing newsletters.
That said, I did want to share something our son just said, something that proved once again that he might just be more intelligent than both of his parents.
“You’re always telling me that I don’t know when to quit,” he said to his mom this morning, after he was incessant about something or other (probably having ice cream at 6:45 in the morning).
“But you also tell me how good it is that I never give up,” he said. “So which is it?”
Sometimes (always), we parents need to consider how we deliver the message.
Ice cream for breakfast. I get that request every morning. They believe I will crack. I won't.
Smart kid. They know how to pick apart what we say with surgical precision.