These Are A Few Of Her Favorite Things

Like most kids, our daughter tries to sneak things: toys to school, extra dessert and stuff like that. As it often happens, karma is a harsh mistress and we always find out. Usually we catch wind that something is going down in the house and catch her in the act, like prison guards descending upon a troublesome inmate.

Sometimes, though, we find out what she did after she did it. Case in point: Our daughter has a loft bed in her room and, for whatever reason, I had to climb up into her bed to do get something days before Thanksgiving and I found some Hershey Kiss wrappers in her sheets and a piece of chewed-up gum stuck to one of her bed posts. The punishment? She had her gum-chewing privledges revoked for a month.

Last night she begged us to let her make her own lunch for today and since she wanted PB&J and chips, we let her do it on her own in the kitchen. After her lunch was made, she put it in her lunch bag, grabbed her backpack and high-tailed it into her room. As she was walking through the living room, we told her “You can leave your lunch in the fridge since it’ll get funky overnight otherwise…”

By the look on her face, her twitchy movements and “Uhhh….oooookay… hold on…” response we knew it was show time!

I walked in her room just in time to see her follow-through after tossing something. After several chances to come clean and telling her “Look. I know you snuck something so you can either tell me what it is and where it is, or I can toss your room and find it myself,” she kept insisting that if she told me I would be mad, as if she expected that be a sufficient “come clean” statement.

This is where things got interesting: As her last chance I told her “If you don’t tell me, right now, what you took I will find it and I will take away all of your favorite toys – your American Girl doll, your DS, your Hammies… all of your favorites – for a whole month!”

She called my bluff, the poor, silly girl.

Keli and I now share our room with all of her favorite things: Her American Girl doll, her Nintendo DS, her new Lego Star Wars game for the Wii, and all of her Hammies toys. I wanted to store them on top of the living room bookshelves but Keli felt that would have been too cruel. The killjoy!

Oh yeah, the contraband she tried to sneak past us? Four sticks of bubble gum, which she just got back after having it taken away for most of the previous month.

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