(Life happens so fast lately I can't keep up. Here's something I wanted to share several weeks ago, not long after our house caught on fire, and our 11 year old daughter woke up her brother in time to escape from the fire.)
My kids fight incessantly over the best seats in the house, recently that means 2 recliners, which is basically all we have since our house caught on fire. "Quack, quack, seat back," one of them will chant as he or she leaves the desirable seat in order to get a snack from the kitchen. Invariably, one of the other kids will immediately slip into the vacant chair, causing a huge fuss when the original occupant returns.
One evening 11 year old Mary hopped up to go to the kitchen, chanting the quack quack as she went. Her 15 year old brother David hopped up and flopped down into Mary's chair. When Mary came back and surveyed this disaster, her face turned stony. "Quack Quack Seat Back," she said sternly. David shrugged his shoulders and smiled, "nope." Mary repeated the chant and Davy continued to smile.
Finally Mary stood up very straight and glared down at her brother with narrowed eyes, "I saved your life!"
Quack quack, she got her seat back.
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