Kid's say the darnedest things

Ya know I don't see my family much. Not because they live far away or anything like that just because I'm always busy with school or friends. Well this weekend I went to my grandmother's house and had dinner with aunts, uncles, and cousins and it was actually kinda fun. See I'm not the most talkative when I'm around people I don't know as well. Now I know what you're thinking "they're your family how can you not know them that well?" Well after my mother got remarried and we moved I don't see them that much and some of the newer members I have only met a hand full of times. This time I sat quietly and didn't really say much just listened and felt kinda awkward. I had fun though my grandma told me stories about when I was a little girl and she would babysit me during the week while my mom was at work. This was before I was old enough to go to school and then when I started to go to preschool my grandma was one of the preschool teachers. I was a sheltered child in some aspects because until I was old enough to watch myself I was only ever babysat by family or really close friends there's only one time my mom can remember hiring a babysitter.

So I spent a lot of time with my grandma when I was younger and I remember making cookies and sitting and watching her play Tetris on her Nintendo. We had fun. Well she was talking about how I used to love to wash the dishes. I'd stand on my little stool for hours just washing the dishes and rewashing them apparently. I vaguely remember that and you know what's crazy? After we got a dishwasher I hated doing the dishes I'd much rather wash them by hand. I'm weird when it comes to dishes. I don't mind loading the dishwasher but I hate unloading it (especially if someone else loads it because they always do it wrong) and it's the same when I wash dishes by hand I don't mind washing them and putting them in the dish dryer (or what ever the little thing is called) but I hate putting them away. I'm kinda the same way with my laundry. When I get around to doing it I don't mind the washing and drying but I don't like folding and putting it on hangers. I usually just live out of my laundry basket. Grandma also told stories about how when they got their house re-carpeted and they had a roll of carpet on the stairs and I spent all day climbing the stairs and sliding down it. I remember that. I wore through a brand new pair of paint's that day.

Yeah got off track there sorry. Well my uncle was running around and his kid and some of my other cousins were just following him like a little trail of ducklings (all the kids where about 3-5 years old) and my aunt commented on how cute it was. Grandma said he's always been that way with all the grand kids and was telling stories about some of the things I had said to him when I was younger. It's funny cause he only has one kid who's he's about 4 so while I was growing up with all the cousins closer to my age he had no kids and apparently he was the favorite uncle. According to my grandma I worshiped him when I was little and it makes sense he and I share the same birthday. A few years ago he threatened to forget my birthday because I didn't say hi to him and then he accused me of stealing his birthday. Ya know because it was my fault. But yeah so I worshiped this man when I was a child. Well I didn't worship him all the time. One time my grandma was asking me to do something (when I was little she called me peanut) so she said "Peanut will you do ....(she doesn't remember what she asked me to do)" my uncle said "no I wont" (she must have called him peanut too when he was younger) Well I got really mad at him and in a very stern voice (as stern as a 3 or 4 year old can get) said "I am grandmas peanut. Not you." When grandma told this story everyone laughed and then she told an even better one (the only reason for this post is so I can tell this story)

Have you ever seen that show kids say the darnedest things well I can guarantee that I said some pretty interesting things as a child. One time I called kittens "cute little bastards" I didn't know what the word meant. Well apparently the uncle that I worshiped got called something even better. He was doing something or saying something and I said to him "Don't be dickless" I was trying to say ridiculous. I had never heard this story before and I couldn't stop laughing when my grandma finished telling us about it. I wish someone had gotten it on camera I mean come one AFV man.