From the backseat of the car:
Girl: When I grow up, I'm not going to have a job.
Boy: How will you get money?
Girl: From my money box.
Boy: But what about when it runs out?
Girl: I won't spend it.
Boy: But how will you buy stuff?
Girl: I won't.
Boy (getting frustrated): But how will you buy cages for your animals?
Girl: I won't need cages.
Boy: But how will you pay for a house and food?
Girl: With the money in my money box!
Boy: But what about when it runs out??!!!!
Girl: I'LL USE MY PIGGY BANK!
Boy (starting to cry): That won't be enough to buy furniture!!!
Girl (after a pause, sounding hesitant and a bit panicked): I'll live with Gaga*. She already has all that stuff.
Boy: But what about your family? What about when you get married?
Girl (starting to sound teary-eyed): I won't get married. I'll be like Grandma.
Boy: But you'll get lonely!!!
Girl: (silence)
Me (looking in the review mirror and seeing her hold back the tears): Sweetie, are you okay?
Girl (shouting through full-on sobbing): I WANT TO STAY WITH YOU FOREVER, MOMMY!!!!!
Me: That's fine, sweetie. You can stay with me. [To the Boy] Do you want to stay with me, too?
Boy (with a sniffle): Yes.
Me: Great! We'll all just stay together forever.
Whew.
*maternal grandmother
7 comments:
love this.
I love it, too!!! They've had similar conversations in the back of my car, one in which the boy told the girl she couldn't grow up to be "just a princess." She couldn't make money doing that. I love it that he sort of gets it. On the other hand, I don't want him to worry so much about his sister's welfare - not this soon! Aren't these conversations great!?
P.S.
And I am glad she knows she can live with me:)
I want to live with Gaga, too!!!!!
And of *course* her animals won't be in cages! They'll follow her around like Snow White!
Your kids are SO cute! And weird! I love it. The Girl is so beautifully creative and odd.
(My verification word is "undisyna" which I'd like to read as "un-Disney-a.")
Ginger: Me, too!
Gaga: If the budget keeps going this way, we might ALL be living with you.
TKW: With the kind of food you make, I'm SURE you'd be welcome at Gaga's.
HM, Last summer, the kids' mantra was "Weirdos rock!" I concur.
Oh, the pain of having to become a self-sufficient adult! Girl, I hate to admit it, but sometimes I'm completely with you on the full-on sobbing about that.
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