Entry FeedHusband and I were sitting at the kitchen table. I was trying to have a conversation while he was trying to read a magazine.
Suddenly, we hear a loud scream out of daughter followed by crying, then two little feet running up from the basement.
"What happened?" we asked Son Two as he whizzed by on his way upstairs.
"I just need to get her a band-aid," he replied, running to the upstairs bathroom.
I, of course, was on my feet immediately and over to the basement door. Daughter was coming up the stairs, crying. I noticed no blood. She was holding her index finger erect.
"What happened?" I asked, scooping her into my arms.
"He bit me," she answered.
Son Two came down. Empty handed.
"What happened?" I asked, again.
"I couldn't find a band-aid."
"No - I mean downstairs. Your sister said that you bit her."
"Well, she was just giving me something to eat and she didn't take her fingers out; she was giving me something to eat, like a tic tac, and the first one I ate but the second time she was giving it to me with her fingers and she didn't take her fingers out of my mouth fast enough and then my mouth started to close like this and her fingers were still there."
I remember back in business school I had a communications prof. who always said the key is to be clear and concise (I can't remember if it was Keep It Simple, Stupid or Keep It Stupid Simple).
I think Daughter nailed it. Son Two was going for the, "how can I say that I bit her without it actually sounding like I bit her" answer.
"Just say 'sorry' to her, OK?" I said.
How is it that just anybody can write a blog and get as common as this? Its not like youve said anything incredibly impressive --more like youve painted a fairly picture over an issue that you simply know absolutely nothing about! I dont desire to sound mean, here. But do you genuinely think that you can get away with adding some fairly pictures and not genuinely say anything?