Mom: Adele, you know how Daddy is really good at making mozzarella, pizza, and other certain things? Pretty soon, you’re going to become the expert in something in this household and do it better than anyone else. What do you want to be the expert in?
Adele: I don’t know.
Mom: Well you know, I would really like it if you became an expert at cleaning the bathrooms and doing the toilets.
Adele: Okay. I’ll do that.
Mom: I’ll even pay you to do the toilets for me.
Adele (emphatically): Mom, you don’t have to pay me!
Dad: Why not?
Adele: Because I live here, you don’t have to pay me when I live here all the time. Save your money for something else.
Adele and I were having a little tea time, but I kept getting up to finish loading the dishwasher and told her that if she wanted to be with me, she could have her tea in the kitchen. I meant she could stand in there and hold her tea cup. I turned around and she had set this whole thing up! She really likes having a special tea time each afternoon!!!! Sometimes we do a little picture study and sometimes we just talk.
