What the Kids Had to Say

Theo and the girls spent the night at her mom's. In the morning my three beauties were going to the pool, but Theo's mom (Stefka) had other ideas and delayed them by panicking over nothing (which she and her exhusband are masters of) and guilting her daughter into taking more useless stuff home with her.

Theo: Mom, I am not taking that bag of stuff. You give it to me only because you don't have the heart to throw it out yourself, which I would gladly do for you if I had room in the car.

Stefka: How dare you. These are things of quality I feel you could use...

Cassidy: C'man mom. Let's go swimming.

Stefka: ...and they are not for the garbage.

Theo: You mean like this black, orange and green butter dish from the 70's with "Butter Me Up" written on it or this jar of capers from 1992?

Stefka: I got that butter dish in 1982 not the 70's...

Cassidy: Grandma, you're crazy. Let's go swimming. I love my dad. He's soooo funny. He makes me laugh. Ok bye grandma.

Stefka: A umm whaaa a huh.


The night previous they stayed at my father-in-laws place. Theo had plans with a friend and was taking the kids over to her house to play with her child. Grandpa had other ideas and a big fight unsued culminating in my wife having to break the news to a 4 year old that Rain wasn't coming to play with her, but instead going out with her Grandpa to Yorkdale. They discussed the events the next morning.

Theo: Dad, do you know how embarrassing that was for me to break those plans?

Gjoro: Oh c'mon man. She's four. She will get over it.

Theo: I'm sure she will, but her mother, on the other hand, who is one of my very best friends, was not at all impressed.

Gjoro: C'mon, Rain is eight. She doesn't want to play with a four year old. She was much more happy going to Yorkdale with me than going there.

Rain: Actually, Grandpa, I kinda would have liked to have gone to Hannah's to play a little more.

Gjoro: Oh.