Driving Julia to swim practice tonight, starting to push on the gas as the traffic light turns green.
JULIA: (with awe) How do you and Daddy always KNOW when the light is about to turn green??
ME: Uh...because I saw it turn red on the lights on the other side of the intersection?
JULIA: (with wonder) Oh!! I never thought of that! Daddy did it yesterday and now you just did it and I was like...
ME: You were like "Gasp! My parents are amazing!"
JULIA: I thought you had some power to, like, predict the lights changing, or, like, you could see the light turn a special kind of shade of red before it turned green!
I should've gone with special powers instead of giving her the real answer. That would be way more exciting.
So true, you have to keep us your amazing facade before they get old enough to realize you're nothing special, just ordinary folk!!
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