mother's day

mother's day 2012

Not too ambitious. Scraping together coupons, the plan was to meet grandma halfway, more or less, between houses, in Temecula, at Souplantation. The goal was to leave our house around 8 or so.

The plan hit a snag when my wife went to her makeup kit, something she does maybe 3 or 4 times a year. Every piece was gone or opened or missing. The only obvious culprit was Princess, who loves playing with makeup. Obviously I had grown lax in keeping our bedroom door locked while I was busy with Little Sister or some other distraction. The wife said we couldn't go until she got her makup back.

I went looking through the layers of clothes and such in Princess's floor, and found, instead of makeup, something else disturbing -- a picture scrapbook partially finished of Princess and her biological mother. Princess had gotten it and took some of it apart.

This greatly upsets my Wife, who prides herself on making and keeping valuable things, and as she puts it would simply like some things that had been put aside and taken care of stay put aside and taken care of. Not rummaged through Tasmanian devil style.

"Why does she have to make everything so hard, so hurtful" she asks. Why does princess have to be so mean.

I feel guilty, thinking I should have looked out more. But on the other hand, how vigilant can I be 24/7? I have other things to get done; I can't spend 100 percent of my time watching over Princess to make sure she doesn't get into our stuff.

We eventually got out of the house, and made our way to Temecula. Grandma and her husband had been waiting an hour by the time we got there, but we had a good time at the restaurant.

Came home, wife lay down in bed, Princess retired to her room. Everytime I went to check on her, she soon demanded that I leave.

Then came evening; time to visit the biological mom at the local jail, something Princess had been doing for the past several weeks, and which she seems to have been enjoying. Only this time she insisted she did not want to go. Wouldn't give a particular reason, didn't say she never wanted to visit again, just repeated that today she did not want to go.

My wife went on her own. Princess right now is jumping on the trampoline in the back yard with Little Sister. Before that she was doing gymnastics pullups in her bedroom closet.