When She's Right, She's Right
One of my most favorite things in the world is to sit quietly and listen as Alexis talks to her peers. There are lots of opportunities to do it, but in the car RULES. Which is all to say, I love when it's my turn to drive some girls home from dance class.
Recently, Alexis and one of her friends have sat in the back seat of my car and carried on a many week-long conversation about families. The conversation tends to pick up where it last left off, even if weeks have passed between conversations. It started weeks ago with some discussion around familial backgrounds, with the girls going back and forth about countries that their ancestors were from. Norway, Russia, Italy, Germany ... they went through all sorts of things.
This week things continued. They began talking about how many cousins they have and how big their families are. Eleven aunts, thirty cousins, seventeen uncles ... there was a lot of conversation about big families. Alexis' family is huge, but her friend's extended family is even bigger. That led them to talking about how many kids they plan to have.
Alexis has been stuck at 5 kids for a while. Somewhere around here there is a post about what she plans to name them and everything. She's a planner, that one.
Her plans were met with counter-plans, but then her friend set Alexis up for the best line ever. Alexis' friend told the story of how there are eleven kids in one of the families in her family. ELEVEN.
Alexis replied, "Can you imagine how horrifying it would be to have eleven kids?" I actually heard her shudder before she continued, "I mean, you'd never be able to get rid of them all!"
Truer words have never been spoken.
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Reader Comments (3)
Alexis rules ; best words spoken!
Love it! And, she is so very right.
i almost choked on my water. didn't expect that one!