My 7-year-old daughter has a friend who moved a few towns away.
My daughter was sad.
I – not quite as much.
The friend (let’s call her Emma) is a sweet girl but VERY chatty. She would also relentlessly ask for playdates. I could barely get a breather from the last playdate and she wanted to come over again. And she had a lot of opinions on many things. Like she was dismayed that I didn’t serve soda with dinner.
“Drink water,” I suggested. “It’s refreshing.”
“I only drink soda. Do you have any Coke?” Emma responded.
“We don’t drink soda. Juice?” I offered.
“No. I won’t drink anything.”
Okie dokie.
Well, we ran into her this weekend.
I had 2-year-old Chase with me. Emma immediately asked the whereabouts of his twin sister Harlowe.
“Oh she’s at home,” I explained.
“With who?” she asked because apparently this 7-year-old girl is deeply interested in my childcare situation.
“My dad is taking care of her.”
“I thought your dad was dead,” Emma said.
“No, not dead. But I’ll definitely tell him you say hello.”
15 Responses to the vivacious playdate
kelcey kintner
get the restraining order against Emma now. seriously, you won’t regret it.
She sounds fantastic. Get a restraining order.
I’m having flashbacks to preschool playdates that caused me to make sure my girls knew to never say they were bored or didn’t like what was served at a friend’s house.My older one was lauded as being so polite (until the teenage attitude arrived:)
N and Em's mom Reply:
July 30th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
I had the same reaction. We used to practice what to say at the dinner table if someone offered you something that you didn’t like or had never had before.
That type of kid can be seriously entertaining.
Too bad she’s moved so far far away!
You have such an art to find the hilarity in the simplest things. I heart you for that.
You should be sad that such good blog fodder moved away.
Takes me back to a kid that came over to our house to play with my son and as he was opening up my refrigerator to grab a drink for himself…he commented that his TV was so much bigger than ours. Lovely!
So, apparently dead is the new 69.
Abby Reply:
August 1st, 2012 at 1:12 am
Ok so that’s just hilarious.
Doesn’t it make you wonder where she gets it from???? Don’t you just want to schedule a playdate with her mom to track down the source of the crazy???
Very funny.
What a great story! I never asked for anything when I was at a friend’s house. Kids today are SO different and some of them take precocious to a whole new level.
LOVE!!!! I have 5…and they all have *that* friend…where you totally consider “letting” your husband take that job across America, just to escape.