NonStick World
Monday Apr 07, 2008
Temptation, Remove Myself from Thee
During our last visit to the Bay Area, my daughter did something surprising and quite admirable.We were at ABC Cafe in Oakland Chinatown and sitting at one of those tables with swivel chairs on one side and a bench on the other. She was driving me insane by swiveling around in her chair so hard that every time it reached the end of travel, it shook the whole table. Her little cousin, who was sitting in the swivel chair next to her, started swiveling, too. I was about to smack someone.
ME: Mui, stop spinning your chair.
MUI: (continues swiveling)
ME: Mui, stop spinning your chair.
MUI: (continues swiveling)
ME: Mui, that's one. If you don't stop, we will wait in the car while Yi Yi and Avery finish lunch.
MUI: (continues swiveling) I'm not spinning. The chair is spinning me.
ME: That's two.
MUI: (Gets up and walks over to my side of table.) Mommy, can you move over? I want to sit here.
ME: Why?
MUI: Because I don't want to spin and when I sit in the chair it spins.
How many times I wish I knew my will power was not sufficient, that I should just remove myself from temptation.
Posted at 10:08AM Apr 07, 2008 by nonstick in Family | Comments[1]
That is just the sweetest thing ever. As short as it was your story still touched me. :) Thanks for sharing.
Posted by keldwud on April 13, 2008 at 08:25 AM MST #