Pearl came home from her two-night sleepover with Nana and Poppa today. She had a great time, and was very well-behaved. Fainjin and Babess were glad to have her back, which they demonstrated by bickering with her all the way home.
A little while after we got home, I was trying to get Pearl to try on some of her trousers – she’s grown taller, and most are now too short for her. I needed to know which ones are still long enough. She was snarky and grouchy and flounced around as if I was asking her to scrub out the Augean Stables with her own toothbrush. Exasperated, I said, “I bet you weren’t like this for Nana!”
She sniped and grouched some more, then said, “And no I wasn’t like this for Nana!”
“Well, why are you treating me so badly then?”
“Because I wasted all my good manners on her!”
