The other day Karis Joy was sprinkling cinnamon sugar on her toast, and said, "Butter is the glue that holds on the glitter!" Spoken like a true kindergartner. As I've posted about getting children’s help in dinner tasks, I have to share this story I received over email:
My mother taught me to read when I was three years old (her first mistake).We’ve had some funny looking tables over the years as the children have taken over the role of setting the table, but thankfully I don’t have a story like that to share…yet.
One day, I was in the bathroom and noticed one of the cabinet doors was ajar. I read the box in the cabinet. I then asked my mother why she was keeping napkins in the bathroom. Didn’t they belong in the kitchen? Not wanting to burden me with unnecessary facts, she told me that those were for “special occasions.”
Now fast forward a few months….it’s Thanksgiving Day, and my folks are leaving to pick up the pastor and his wife for dinner. Mom had assignments for all of us while they were gone. Mine was to set the table. When they returned, the pastor came in first and immediately burst into laughter. Next came his wife who gasped, then began giggling. Next came my father, who roared with laughter. Then came Mom, who almost died of embarrassment when she saw each place setting the table with a “special occasion” napkin at each plate, with the fork carefully arranged on top. I had even tucked the little tails in so they didn’t hang off the edge!
My mother asked me why I used these, and, of course, my response sent the other adults into further fits of laughter. “But, Mom, you said they were for special occasions!”
