Because we have all been there....

I think everyone with kids has been at the place where there child gets old enough to embarrass them. We have a trip planned at the end of the month to Chicago, and as a special treat I made reservations for Olivia, Josh's mom MaryJane and myself to have lunch at the American Girl doll store. For those of you without small girls, this is a mildly ridiculous store in big cities with very elaborate dolls that cost about $100 and any accessory you could ever want from furnature to horses to clothes. There are parts of the store where you can buy clothes for you, your doll and your mom that all match and there are always plenty of mothers and daughters and dolls dressed alike. They have a cafe there that you can have lunch and it is very popular.

Back to the story. Olivia has gone recently from being 5 to 15 with a mouth to match. She is punished by losing priveliges and things she may have gotten. Well this past week she "lost" getting something at the American Girl store when we go for lunch. Later in the day she asked me if I thought her Grandma would get her a doll there. I was not in the mood for a battle so I said, maybe but she may get you something for the doll you already have like some clothes or glasses or something (a $10-$15 expense as opposed to a $100 doll). I quite literally had forgotten this conversation when tonight Olivia was talking to said Grandma on the phone and said....."my mom said you would buy me a doll and some clothes at the American girl store". I said "Olivia, dont say that", to what she replied to her Grandma....."my mom doesn't want me to tell you that". Kids have a funny knack for taking things out of context and embarrassing the heck out of you dont they!!