The boys played video games and my daughter was over at a friend's house for a sleep over. It's late afternoon as I write this and she hasn't come back yet from her friend's house. I don't remember which friend she spent the night with and I didn't feel like calling up all the possible parents to see if my daughter was there. As I said, it's a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Lazy Sunday Afternoon
Today has been a lazy Sunday. My kids were supposed to do their homework but are betting that they will have a snow day tomorrow. I'm not the weatherman and my husband and I were too tired from drinking too much Italian Moscato at a dinner party the night before, so I didn't stop them from not doing their homework. It's a free country, as they say in America, and if they want to do poorly in school, then that is their choice, so long as they make their choices after much thought and consideration.
The boys played video games and my daughter was over at a friend's house for a sleep over. It's late afternoon as I write this and she hasn't come back yet from her friend's house. I don't remember which friend she spent the night with and I didn't feel like calling up all the possible parents to see if my daughter was there. As I said, it's a lazy Sunday afternoon.
You work hard all week and sometimes you just have to be lazy. It's my American right to be lazy. When I was growing up in Germany, my parents were Schwabs and Schwabs, or Swabians as they are strangely called in English, are known for their industriousness. Schaffe, schaffe Häusle baue, or work, work build houses.
The boys played video games and my daughter was over at a friend's house for a sleep over. It's late afternoon as I write this and she hasn't come back yet from her friend's house. I don't remember which friend she spent the night with and I didn't feel like calling up all the possible parents to see if my daughter was there. As I said, it's a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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You say you want to raise your kids American, but most American parents are not so lazy that they wouldn't know where their child is spending the night. Sounds like a case for an intervention by child protective services.
ReplyDeleteReally Ellen, it sounds like you have a vendetta against me, or to use an American word that you might understand, a feud. I think, and maybe I'm wrong, but America is a free country, the freest country in the world. If I want to be lazy one day of the week, isn't that my patriotic right? My daughter did come home yesterday afternoon and it isn't true that we didn't know where she was. She was texting with my older son, Joachim, so it's not like we were completely out of touch. Haven't you ever heard of Six Degrees of Separation?
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