Living with Megan

Back in the summer to give the girls an incentive to practice piano I told them I would buy them an ice cream from Costco when they passed off 10 songs. Once school started and they didn't hit 10 songs I didn't think much more about it and practicing pretty much came to a halt.

This is our conversation the other morning.

Megan: mom, I'm on my 10th song. When I pass it off I get ice cream.

Me: I guess so. I kind of expected the 10 songs to be passed off during the summer, not 8 months later.

Megan: Well, you never said that it was just for the summer and you never said that the deal was off so I still get to have ice cream. (She said all this with smile)

Me: (realizing that my 8 year old is getting way too smart) Megan, I'm not sure how these next few years of us living together is going to go ...

Megan: (smile getting bigger). Oh, I know exactly how it's going to go.