It is always interesting, both as a mom and an elementary teache,r to listen to kids' versions of the happenings in their lives. Not the big happenings, but the every day, easy to over look happenings that make up their "normal" world.
My parents are married and have houses in two different cities due to their jobs. It has been that way since my oldest, Emme, was only 18 months old. I never thought twice about it. This living situation is all that my children have ever known. Then one day, one of Emme's friends asked her why her Gramma and Grampa (aka Mami and Papa) lived in different houses?? Now it needs to be noted that this question was very valid because this friend of Emme's sees my parents together all the time and has spent time with both of them together in both households.
Now, Emme is not one to admit to not knowing something. I am not sure that I have ever heard her say the words "I don't know" (except of course when I am trying to figure out the culprit behind something lost or broken, then she readily claims ignorance). Well, this time was like all the others. She pondered the question and after a few long (obviously reflective) seconds, she responded to her friend's question about the living situation with great confidence in the content of her answer. Here is what she came up with:
"Well, you see, Mami lives in the condo but Papa can't live there because he would eat all her
food and Mami wouldn't like that. And, Papa snores really loud, he even has a machine for it. So
that is why they CAN'T live in the same house."
If only every situation could be explained by Miss Emme.
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