Mabes: Unlikely voice of reason

As Mabes and I ate our lunch today, she asked, "Mommy, is dis a healfy lunch?" I looked at our turkey and lettuce sandwiches on whole wheat bread with a side of apple and said, "Yes, it's pretty healthy."

"Good. Because I know you like to have a Diet Coke after lunch, but Diet Coke is a treat and isn't healfy, so you need to eat somefing healfy first before you have a treat like Diet Coke or ice cream."

I was fighting back laughter at this point, and just said, "Oh, do I get to have ice cream too?!?"

"No, mom, you only get one treat right now. I just meant when you want to have a treat, you need to eat somefing healfy first. Like milk or water are healfy to drink, and venchables [vegetables] and proTEIN are healfy to eat."

With that in mind, perhaps I'll go eat some carrots before indulging in some M&M Specktacular eggs. I bought (and recently finished off) a bag of Cadbury mini eggs, and was wishing I had also picked up the M&M eggs. And then yesterday I discovered a bag of the M&M eggs hiding in the treat cupboard--apparently I didn't put them back on the shelf at Target. Totally made my day, and just goes to show that sometimes being slightly senile has its perks.