Thursday, January 27, 2005
A Long Time Ago...
Kim over at Relaxed Homeschool has a great story about how her son decorated the bathroom walls... which reminded me of our most famous "home story". (this is what owen calls them... home stories)...
Dorothy was 2 when we had Sarah. From day one, Dorothy was not impressed with having a baby sister around. Over the years, she was pretty mean and impatient towards Sarah. It all came to a head when Sarah was learning to write her name... she must have been around 3-4, in the stage of having some of the letters backwards, and Dorothy was around 5-6.
Well, it was Christmas morning, and while we were opening gifts, we noticed that there was black writing on one of our brand new white lampshades. (We were very poor in those days and buying those two matching lamps was a huge big deal.) The only word written on the lampshade in black permanent marker was SARAH. The handwriting was exactly like Sarah's - backwards letters and all - and very untidy just like her handwriting.
We gasped. We were shocked. Sarah was our nice child. We gently took her over to the lamp and sadly said, "why?" Sarah looked at the lampshade, burst into tears, and wailed, "I didn't do it!" Suddenly we both turned to look at Dorothy. She was smiling nervously. Then she stopped smiling when she realized we were looking at her. It turned out she had faked her younger sister's autograph. At age 5 1/2! She seemed to want to get her sister into trouble.
This was a very difficult situation. It was Christmas morning! Their dad wanted to punish her. I said, let's think about it. My thinking was... well, she hurt our home, so she owes our home something. I can't remember what we ended up doing... I think for a former incident, she ended up choosing from a list and deciding to vacuum the car.
One thing about Dorothy, she never could lie about anything and get away with it. That we know of.
Dorothy was 2 when we had Sarah. From day one, Dorothy was not impressed with having a baby sister around. Over the years, she was pretty mean and impatient towards Sarah. It all came to a head when Sarah was learning to write her name... she must have been around 3-4, in the stage of having some of the letters backwards, and Dorothy was around 5-6.
Well, it was Christmas morning, and while we were opening gifts, we noticed that there was black writing on one of our brand new white lampshades. (We were very poor in those days and buying those two matching lamps was a huge big deal.) The only word written on the lampshade in black permanent marker was SARAH. The handwriting was exactly like Sarah's - backwards letters and all - and very untidy just like her handwriting.
We gasped. We were shocked. Sarah was our nice child. We gently took her over to the lamp and sadly said, "why?" Sarah looked at the lampshade, burst into tears, and wailed, "I didn't do it!" Suddenly we both turned to look at Dorothy. She was smiling nervously. Then she stopped smiling when she realized we were looking at her. It turned out she had faked her younger sister's autograph. At age 5 1/2! She seemed to want to get her sister into trouble.
This was a very difficult situation. It was Christmas morning! Their dad wanted to punish her. I said, let's think about it. My thinking was... well, she hurt our home, so she owes our home something. I can't remember what we ended up doing... I think for a former incident, she ended up choosing from a list and deciding to vacuum the car.
One thing about Dorothy, she never could lie about anything and get away with it. That we know of.
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Lisa,
Wow, that was amazing. Forging at 5! Do the girls get along good now? Sometimes?
I have my fingers crossed for the exam. I know you can do it. Math is your friend. Maybe say it three hundred times until it has no adrenal effect on you.
cheers, Kim C. of RH
Wow, that was amazing. Forging at 5! Do the girls get along good now? Sometimes?
I have my fingers crossed for the exam. I know you can do it. Math is your friend. Maybe say it three hundred times until it has no adrenal effect on you.
cheers, Kim C. of RH
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: 11:38 a.m.
they get along way better now, although not "best friends"... they are just soooo different in personality... think:
Sarah - makeup, tatoos, body piercings, performs in band, talks alot, airhead, thoughtless...(actually typical teen)
Dorothy - no makeup, tatoos or piercings, serious, responsible, intelligent,loves reading, has run small businesses, thoughtful
no wonder they aren't that great together!
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Sarah - makeup, tatoos, body piercings, performs in band, talks alot, airhead, thoughtless...(actually typical teen)
Dorothy - no makeup, tatoos or piercings, serious, responsible, intelligent,loves reading, has run small businesses, thoughtful
no wonder they aren't that great together!
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