One Dollar Breakfast

I haven't felt very well this morning, so I've been dragging. But don't worry. Sissy has been doing it all. She got dressed and did her chores. Then she fixed her own hair beautifully. Next, I heard Punkin screaming, while Sissy calmly repeated "I've already started, Punkin, I'm going to finish. Punkin, I've already started and I'm going to finish." She was trying to fix Punkin's hair. I finally intervened "Oh, just leave her alone!". Then she was chasing down Honey to fix her hair, which she finally accomplished after a mini-battle.

Finally, while I was tiredly nursing the baby, she came to me with a notebook and pen, and said "If you want to eat any of the breakfast I am going to make, you will need to pay me one dollar."

"What are you making?" I asked, quite interested to know, since we are very low on groceries at the moment.

"I'm not sure yet."

"Well, there aren't many choices, because we don't have many groceries."

Anyway. She ended up making a peach smoothie with some frozen peaches, a bit of sugar, and some milk.

Immediately afterwards, Honey came in, distraught. "Mama! She says I have to give her a dollar!"

"Don't worry, I'll pay for you." We went and got a dollar out of my wallet, which I gave to Honey, and she gave to Sissy.

A few minutes later, they were looking for a pen. It seems that Sissy needed to write down how much money she'd made.

Now she's four dollars the richer, and I think I'm going to encourage her to spend a few dollars on something nice for the family soon.

By the way, just in case any of you were wondering: I don't charge my kids for breakfast.