Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Truly, My Worst Nightmare

why

It’s on in full force now.  That period in her life that I’ve been fearing ever since… well, since well before I had a child, is here now.  And I’m terrified.

Kasia is in the stage where everything becomes “Why?”  “That’s a monkey,” I say.  “Why?” she asks.  Everything is why, why, why?!  I’m going to eat lunch.  Why?  We have to put our shoes on.  Why?  Is there anything I can say that won’t get the response “why?”  Of course there is.

“Because I said so.”

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