“I’ll take the cash!”
Sunday, April 30th, 2017A big event in the life of our family happened recently, when we left the girls home in the evening for the first time. We stayed close and just had a quick dinner in the neighborhood, but it felt kinda monumental. And I’m happy to report that all went well: Avery got a bit sad at bedtime and kept asking Zoe to call me, but Zoe made her feel better by pulling up the restaurant on a map on her tablet and showing her how close we were.
The next morning, we gave Zoe some money – like we would any other babysitter – and she looked surprised. “I don’t need that,” she said, only to have her sister cry out, “Ooh, I’ll take the cash!” (And if that story doesn’t perfectly encapsulate their personalities, I don’t know what does.)
-M