Teaching my girls how to pull the rope for themselves. It was a pretty innocuous mother's club meeting, and we were talking about babysitters. I don't even recall why it came up, the talk about babysitters. Conversation unrolls so organically in these meetings, these times we get together, without children, and get to just talk. But sitters came up in conversation and the turn of that conversation surprised me. Greatly. Apparently around here it's bad manners to quote an hourly rate for one's babysitting services. "You know what gets me?" a mom said, "You know what sitters I prefer? Who I pay the most to? The ones who say 'oh just pay me whatever.'" She went on to explain that (and this is my paraphrase not her exact statement) to her, it came across as very forward, rude even, when these sitters said they charged X dollars per hour. My mind rolled that concept around for a minute: it's cheeky and rude to state upfront how much you charg...
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I approve.
you have some lovely, lovely girls there.
Running on empty
It looks like a grand time. I love that last shot of your girls in their pink finery and cool shades
Oh hell I'm turning into my mother....
and warmth....what's THAT like?!?!
It's funny, I was thinking to myself yesterday that there are places in this world where people can have outdoor egg hunts. How grand it would be to have an outdoor egg hunt...and there you have offered proof of its grandness.
I love Pers's pants/shorts (or is that a skirt-like item) ensemble. I have a daughter who wears such things regularly, since we still have snow on the ground here but the siren song of spring clothing is a strong one.
But you guys? have actual spring flowers! And gorgeous Easter fairies to pose in front of them!