Nikki Murray » archives http://buttershug.com Words and photographs from a Buttershug Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:08:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dinner table exchange http://buttershug.com/people/family/dinner-table-exchange/ http://buttershug.com/people/family/dinner-table-exchange/#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:52:24 +0000 Nikki Murray http://buttershug.com/?p=1241 Scribbled in a notepad with no date:

Me: “Em, try this fettucini. You’re going to die.”

Em: Tastes a bite. Head falls back and eyes roll up in head.

Me: “Lex, Emma has died and gone to noodle heaven.”

Lex: “Yaaaaaay! Oops. I meant: Darn!”

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So, I go to Lex’s class once a week with a friend and we listen to the kids read and then help them take the computer quizzes that follow. I’ve learned a little something over the months I’ve been doing this: kids like to talk.

You’d like to think they’re talking about their cute puppy, or their new jump rope, or the trip to the zoo last weekend. Nope. Huh uh. They’re telling your top family secrets and they’re not sorry they’re doing it.

I now know whose dad has a hairy butt, whose little sister likes to smear feces on the walls, and that time somebody’s mom fell down the porch steps because grandma said she’d been drinking too much beer.

Now, don’t worry, I’m not about to go repeating this information. But now you know why I have a grin on my face when I pass by you on the sidewalk.

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Mommy! Look!

I can’t look right now.

Oh, I forgot. – Mommy, watch this!

Honey, I can’t right now, remember?

Oh yeah. – 
Mommy, can you tie my shoe?

Uhm…

I didn’t tie it good. Can you do it?

Sure, in a minute.

But,

Emma!

What?

What’s Mommy doing right now?

Driving… Oh, I forgot.

That’s okay.

Mommy?

What?

Can we listen to that song about take me to the beach?

Sure, baby.

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