banana pudding

This is just so crazy ... there's no way I could make it up.

Tonight as I sat in the chair in E's room as she was going to bed, she start saying she just didn't want to go to school tomorrow. This marks a handful of nights this semester that she has said she didn't want to go the next day. Tonight, her rationale went something like this ...


I just don't want to go to school tomorrow. School is making me really sad.... ... ...  They're calling me names I don't like, names you didn't give me. I just want them to use my real name. [Who is calling you names? Teachers or friends?] My friends. Sophia and Sarah called me banana pudding today, and it really hurt my feelings. I just don't wanna go to school -- I just wanna stay home. Please, please, please ... ...


Oy. It was all I could do not to smile, but she was so sincere that it hurt my heart a little, too. Here's hoping that she wakes up with a renewed desire to go to school and play.

- E's Momma