Wonderful Wife: “Family, we will be getting up tomorrow at 8 o’clock.”
Little Miss Thing, age 6: “Awwww.”
WW: “Oh, I suppose you would prefer 9 o’clock?”
LMT: “How about… EIGHTY o’clock.”
WW: “She gets that from your side of the family, you know.”
(long pause)
Me: “What? Sorry. I was daydreaming about getting to sleep until eighty o’clock.”
As kids age, you start to see more and more of their true personalities. It’s cool to watch them form and change, and to know you’re making a person.
At age 11, My Oldest Girl is incapable of hurrying. She has no “fast” setting. She’s always off in her own world inside her head, and it shows. She has little inherent respect for authority. She’s pleasant and funny and she loves deeply. But it’s clear she’s usually just somewhere else.
In other words, she’s just like me.
Planning a kid-friendly LARP in my head. Trying to water down the mechanics so that anyone can pick it up fairly quickly. Kinda like True Dungeon, but with actual boffer combat. I’m thinking of calling it True Bludgeon. (trademark in the works)
Very Vocal Viking 