Or because I live with several?
Mom: "Mary, do you have a spelling test tomorrow?"
Mary: "No Mom, it was today."
Mom: "Oh no..."
Mary: "Don't worry, I only missed 'cabbage'."
David: "That silent 'a' gets me every time too."
Mom: "The silent 'a'?"
Mary: "Yeah Mom. The silent 'a' rule. You know."
Mom: "Mary, do you have a spelling test tomorrow?"
Mary: "No Mom, it was today."
Mom: "Oh no..."
Mary: "Don't worry, I only missed 'cabbage'."
David: "That silent 'a' gets me every time too."
Mom: "The silent 'a'?"
Mary: "Yeah Mom. The silent 'a' rule. You know."
No, I don't know.
5 comments:
I have never laughed so hard! Somehow I missed that rule too. Maybe we need to go back to school. Love, Nana
New math and now new english?
I don't know how we graduated without calculators or spell check!
My dd got in on the tail end of the "clapping English rules". Shirley something or whether I think. It was like a lil kids patty cake rhyming game to remember things. I am glad we just had to remember basic phonics aren't you?
Humor is the best medicine!
I love coming here reading your bits and pieces of everyday life :-)
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