Quote of the Week

So, as you know, I have a beef about giving little kids homework. Don't worry, I'm not writing about that again. I do, however, have a funny story that is sort of related.

Part of La Nina's homework is that she has to memorize a different poem every week. It's about 4 lines long with a bunch of repeating. Lately, I've been reading her the poem while she bathes. We read the poem, translate it into English, and learn a line a day through echo reading (I read a couple of words and she echos it.) while she washes her hair, scrubs her booty and plays with a squirt gun. It's odd, but it works. She almost always knows her poem by Friday. This morning I was working with La Nina on the poem and when she stopped me.

"Mom, wait..." La Nina starts looking around the bathroom, like she's noticing it for the first time.

I stopped reading and looked at her. I thought may be she had soap in her eyes or something. After a long pause, I said, "What?"

Then with total exasperation, she said "You know something, you are the most serious woman in the whole wide world."

"What???" I asked.

"Really, Mom. Isn't this sort of silly? I'm doing homework and I'm in the bath," she said with a kind of 'duh' tone of voice as if she was really saying "Mom, you're nuts."

I started cracking up, because I agree with her, it is crazy.