This is what is required to keep the two kids duly entertained. Lolly desires popcorn for supper. She sits squirming at the counter and we all join in and sing lustily, ‘Popcorn girl…she’s been living in her popcorn world!’…working in little snippets of Billy Joel’s influence, a bit of musical practice by matching pitches and staying on key, a rather scant and negligible attempt at nutrition, humor…and in due time…rejection by the little nymph seated at the counter. The discarded popcorn is thrown onto the kitchen floor. She ‘wants down’.
This incident leads to a brief lesson about cleaning up, Auntie’s house, what we do not throw onto the floor and more importantly, what we do not eat off the floor. All in all considering, it was a successful meal.
Re-defining success is a daily requirement around these parts. Everybody polka!
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