Friday, December 11, 2015

Night Chore

Usual night time chore; 
I was lying down in-between my son and my daughter and getting ready to make them sleep. As a routine, we finished watching CNN student news - analyzed the details on Donald Trump to crisis in Syria to e-coli in Chipotle and were getting ready to sleep. 
My daughter as usual had to play the game of superiority over me. She started saying, she knew more words than me, her imaginary pony is whiter than mine, and her santa claus has a better white beard than mine. Initially I was not that interested in getting into the conversation, but not for long.
I hugged her and said to her “look, I’ve lived more than you and I’ve seen more things than you - and let’s not discuss and let’s sleep. The earlier you sleep, the longer you can sleep.”
She protested,”You are not better than me, then why should I listen to you?”
I had no choice other than to take out my magic card, “Look, if we don’t stop talking and sleep, your mom will be here taunting all of us.”
She said, “Look, you are scared of my mom. You know what, I don’t get scared of your mom.”
I asked, “Really??”
“Yes, of course! As a matter of fact, I love her and I even kissed her!”
Realizing that I got to reply to her on this, “Yes, I too love your mom and had kissed her too”
My son, who was on the other side, trying hard to sleep with all our conversations, without even opening his eyes murmured, “ hey guys, you both are losers - I love and kissed both of your moms! now shut up and sleep!”



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