Ol’ #3 is… uh…. wild; damn it, she’s wild – ain’t no gettin’ around it. (It’s been rumored that she is me… I don’t believe it for a second).
A few days before Dan and I left for vacation Pop told Abs he had stocked up on most of the essentials (he told ME, “I brought in 2 pallets of food – hopefully that’ll get us through Tuesday…”) but he needed to know how she stood on liquor and cigarettes. Abby looked him square in the eye and said, “I think I’ll be good on beer but we may need to get me some cigs, Pop.”
Sunday she cut a straw in half and marveled at how much it resembled “one of those long cigarettes they used in the olden days.” She was asking me the name of the long cigarettes (which I didn’t know) and then said, “well, whatever they are called; they were cool and now I’m going to do rings.” First, I was caught up in trying to figure out how she knows about smoke rings and then I found myself lost in awe of her technique…
Today she called me 5 times about Dr. Seuss Day tomorrow – the first of those calls went like this:
Abs: momma, if I pay you back will you go to the Dollar Store and get some hair spray paint for me? Tomorrow is Dr. Seuss Day at school and I thought about dressing up like a character but I think I’d rather just be mismatched ’cause Dr. Seuss was mismatchy so I think I’ll wear my hair in 2 ponytails and paint each one a different color then I thought about one tall sock and one short but I think I’ll go both tall but with different patterns and maybe shorts but I’m planning on wearing a long sleeve shirt and long sleeves with shorts doesn’t seem right so I’m gonna hafta figure out the bottoms but mostly I just need for you to get me the hair paint ’cause Katelyn got some and we want to be twins so will you get that for me when you’re finished with work?
Me: sure thing doll. Ya know what would be fun? We could do a pony tail on one side and a braid on the other…
Abs: mom… I wanna look mismatched not stupid.
Lol…my first laugh of the morning?.