And the Truth Shall be Spoken out of the Mouths of Babes

So this weekend I promised my niece Taylor that we could have a slumber party. She's 3. She has been wanting to sleep over at my house for a couple of weeks but I haven't had a free Friday night until this last Friday. She was so excited! Or so she told me. She called me on Friday and told me that she was all ready to go and that we were going to have so much fun. I talked to her mom and she told me that she had already packed her bag and was just sitting on her bed waiting for me to come and get her. I was really excited to spend some one on one time with her and was totally willing to spoil her rotten by letting her do whatever she wanted! I picked her up and after she showed me her new Disney Princess suitcase we were off! I asked her what she wanted to do and she said, "Um, let's go to your house and pop popcorn and watch a movie." I asked her what she wanted for dinner, or if she wanted to go somewhere for dinner and she said, "Um, let's just go to your house and pop popcorn and watch a movie." Sigh......okay. So we go to my house and after looking around a bit she gets into her suitcase and pulls out the bag of microwave popcorn that she brought with her, yes she actually brought some with her just in case I didn't have any. I guess we really were just going to pop popcorn and watch a movie. So out of all the super cool Disney movies that I own she picks out Sleeping Beauty, which is a good show but let's face it, it's a little on the boring side and doesn't even come close to being as good as say, Little Mermaid. So we watch Sleeping Beauty and she has to remind me on one occasion that if I don't open my eyes I will miss the movie. Finally the movie ends and I ask her what she wants to do next. Can you guess what she said? Watch another movie. I guess I should disclaim that my siblings hardly ever let their children watch tv so when they get the opportunity to do so they want to take full advantage. I convince her to walk to the store to get a slurpee before we start another movie. Can you all just tell how great of a mother I'm going to be? Popcorn and slurpees for dinner and nothing but movie watching all night long. So we eat the slurpees and I can really tell that she's in sugar overload mode because the fact that her tongue is red is the funniest thing she's ever seen in her life! I tell her that we should put on our pajamas and get ready for bed before we watch another movie. Her second movie selection of the night is Pete's Dragon. About 1/3 of the way into it I notice that it's 10 pm and I should probably be putting her to bed. I tell her it's time to go to bed and she bursts into tears and says that she doesn't want to sleep over and that she wants to go home. I called her mom and let her talk to her for a minute, she reiterates the fact that she doesn't want to sleep over and she wants to go home so her mom and I decide that I should probably drive her home. On the way there she happily tells me that she didn't really want to sleep over, she just wanted to come to my house to watch tv.......great, I was suckered by a 3 year old! So I guess when I told her we could do anything she wanted to do I I really didn't mean anything she wanted to do, I really meant anything she wanted to do that sounded fun to me because I spent the whole night trying to convince her to do something different than what she wanted. Sigh. Oh well, lesson learned. Do not have children because they will walk all over you. Okay, so maybe that wasn't the lesson of the evening but it was just a little depressing that I couldn't even handle taking care of a 3 year old for more than 12 hours.....I guess I'll stick to what I'm good at.......and as soon as I figure out what that is I'll let you know!