Trying to resurrect this conversation:

Just prior to having Chinese New Year dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, our 10 year old said something to the effect:

I’m Chinese, right? [Yes.]

Then she remarked that kids say, That’s your mother?

And I said: And they are surprised that I’m not Chinese, right? [Yes.]

And I asked: And that bothers you, right? [Yes.]

And she said: That really offends me. [I forget the word tonight that she used. It was our 12 year old who remembered. When I asked the 10 year old tonight, she thought she would say: That really hurts me.]

I can understand that, can’t you? [OTOH, the 12 yo, at least tonight, says she doesn't feel that way.]

>>>>>>>

This child is a sweetheart of a kid. You couldn’t ask for a better kid. I’m thankful every day that we are together.

Today I looked at her and she had multiple bracelets on. Somedays she chooses to wear a lot of rubber bands as bracelets. I had to laugh, because I am the bracelet queen.

I got a birthday card from my son and daughter-in-law one time that had a hand and arm on the front cover, with the arm covered in bracelets (I brought the style back in again, LOL) — 15 to be exact, all the way up to the elbow (I’m not quite this exotic), but the caption reads: Who’s to say how many bracelets are ‘too many’?

So I said to her, you are certainly my daughter, when you look at your bracelets. (And we both laughed.) I told her the next time someone wonders if I’m her mother, she should just tell them to look at our bracelets, not to mention our hearts.

I wonder if her other mother wears so many bracelets. Likely not. But their hearts match too.

Karin

Originally posted 2008-02-09 22:25:06.

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