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Monday, February 9, 2009

Emily Post, I Am Sorry

Here at Chez Things we have a lot of little girls, soon to be one more, that we are trying to raise with a balance of a good sense of humor and the ability to act like well-mannered young ladies. Tonight during supper, as I was taking a drink, my 9 year old, Thing 1, leaned to the side and let fly a big loud tooooooooooot, something very much frowned upon at the dinner table. Appalled, I sputtered out "Thing 1, what do you say!" and she, without missing a beat, said with a smile "ta-da!"



(Incidently, it is very hard to impress upon one's children the importance of good manners when one is laughing so hard with their spouse that no sound at all is coming out....)

7 comments:

Dawn said...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!

Erin said...

Tonight we were out at a nice restaurant to celebrate my sister's birthday when my Thing 1 let's out a huge belch. "Christian!" I say. "Compliments to the chef!" is his reply :)

Jana said...

Your proper girls would get along just fine with my proper girls.

Michelle said...

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I thought that was just a boy problem :)

Renee said...

Ok yeah i'm totally laughin at this. Let it be said now i don't always have the best manners. I wasnt raised in a barn but my grandpa was a farmer haha. I won't be winning any Emily Post awards. Oh and I do say excuse me it just might be accompanied by laughter

Anonymous said...

LOL!! THat is TOO funny!!

Dawn said...

Uhh... that's what I was planning on wearing the whole time. Is that going to be a problem?