Who needs alarms when you have Alexandra living right under your nose? Every morning... precisely some time between 6:30 and 7:15 (AKA before this night owl mom wants to pry her eyes open... Miss Alexandra comes to my bedside and very UNtenderly wakes me up by demanding, "What's the weather going to be like today? Hot or cold... hot or cold?" When I don't answer right away or the right way according to her ... she continues:
mom mom mom mom mom MOM! (said with obvious gusto)...
You get the idea. She chants my name even though I've already mumbled off something that at least sounded good to me... in my half-asleep state like,
"it's going to be cold in the morning and warm in the afternoon"
Well, that's not good enough for her... she doesn't 'do' warm. The same way she doesn't 'do' maybes. She's a black and white, right and wrong girl... nothing in between. So everyday in beautiful sunny California... when it's 42 degrees in the morning and 72 degrees in the afternoon... she wears this once-cute, now awful coat. She wears it with shorts and sandals, she wears it with sweat pants, jeans and skirts. You won't find Alexandra without her beloved gray toggle coat. Rain or shine, warm or cold. Even after school in lovely 70 degree weather... you can spot her a mile away bundled up in her coat because it's just that big that heaven forbid she holds it instead of wears it. It's just easier to sweat it out. So in the end it didn't even matter how I answered the weather question during my morning alarm.
2 comments:
cute new look on your blog, shay!
I've got several walking alarm clocks too. The best is when they ask for $. I've been suckered a few times.
So, do we get a picture of her in the coat?
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