I’m standing in the kitchen when I hear a little voice from the living room call, “Mom! Jillian stepped on my toe!”
I pause. Decide to make light of it.
“Was it your sore toe?” I call back. (drawing on an old saying of my dad’s)
Long pause.
“No! ...But it was my favorite one!!”
Oh, it still makes me giggle after all these years. I could just see this child’s mind working. This child thought, “I want to get my sibling in trouble. If I say it wasn’t my sore toe, she might not get in trouble. I have to say *something* that will make it seem like stepping on my toe was a really BAD thing!”
~Smile~
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