Exactly How I Feel Sometimes

This has got to stop! The unscheduled hiatus from the blogging world has gone on long enough. I was thinking about posting some highlights of what has gone on here over the past few months, and I still will, but Audrey gave me some great material today.

This afternoon Audrey decided that she wanted to make some fruit salad to go with our dinner tonight. I couldn't help her at the exact time she wanted to do it, so she decided to do it herself. She did a great job and even went the extra steps of chopping (with a butter knife, lest you think I am totally irresponsible and let my 6-year-old wield a kitchen knife unsupervised) the already bite-sized mandarin oranges, grapes, and canned pineapple. Sterling wanted to help at some point, so Audrey let him put the cut-up fruit into the bowl.

Here she is, cheerfully washing her dishes after making her salad.

Afterward, I told "Chef Audrey" that she did a good job and she said that she wants to be a chef when she grows up. A few weeks ago she said that she wanted to be an artist, so I asked her about that. She said that she wants to be a chef and an artist and a teacher. "Anything else?" I asked. "And a mom." was her answer. Since I'm currently reading a ridiculous book about a woman who becomes a housekeeper after losing her job as a corporate lawyer, I asked if Audrey would like to be a maid. "What's that?" she asked. "It's someone who cleans the house, does the chores, stuff like that," I said.

Her reply was immediate and certain, with a tone that suggested I was just slightly losing my mind.

"That's a MOM!"

Of course it is! How could I forget?