We had a small Christmas this year.  My daughter who is four has more than enough toys all she does is play with the boxes anyway.  So, the wife and I decided to go light this year and just enjoy the season without the maddening crowds at the malls and the Best Buys (which I am banned from one in South Bend - a long story will tell if asked) of this world.  So, we did it all last minute and bought gifts for people that would help them with either puzzles, books or so on. 

Well, we are my brothers house for Christmas day and the kids were all running around doing kid things.  They were at is all day.  I grew up that the kids should be seen and not heard.  So, most of the time they were all well hidden away in the basement or in their rooms while my brother and I played with the new Xbox. 

We had a great meal, good conversation and so on.  The evening comes and we are still playing the xbox and having a few cocktails, and we can tell that girl has had enough.  You parents know that signs crying at the drop of a hat, yawning and so on.  I load up the car, the daughter has the big breakdown she does not want to leave, but she is dead tired.  My SIL gives her a glass of mild for the ride home.  My wife was doing one last thing while Abby(the daughter) and I are in the car.

When she speaks up and tells me, "they did not give me a lot".  I am floored.  What the heck am I raising here.  I know I am never satisfied, but I tried to keep that part of my psyche to myself.  I assured her that she got plenty.  "No", she shot back,"they gave me very little", and she held up here middle finger and her index finger to show me that universal sign for very little.

I was appalled!  What kind of hellion am I raising?  I was besides myself.  My wife got in the car and and I told her the conversation that I just had and my wife asked her one simple question.  "What did they give you very little of?"  "My milk," she replied.  She was not happy that she got less than a half glass of milk. 

Oh, the mind of a child and the mind of an supposed adult work so differently.