Spider

So Bayli had a golf lesson yesterday which meant that I sat and watched, waited, read some of my book, had to tie a lasso, got lassoed, etc. etc. Normal golf lesson watching stuff. Oh you guys don't get lassoed while at a golf course? Well you need to come out to Tennessee Hills Golf Course in Pikeville, Tennessee and get lassoed! We go to church with the owners and their little boy is all boy and was in the lassoing (sp?) mood yesterday. I said whatever just don't hit my nose. Anyway I have digressed. Fast forward to lesson over and we are now in the car going home. Bayli is very scared of spiders and bugs FYI. She says "MOM YOU HAVE A SPIDER ON YOUR HEAD!!!!!!". I said "So, knock it off." She reaches over while I am driving flips my visor down and slides open the mirror. ????? Really? Meanwhile the spider could have eaten my face off, but ok. I said "Bay I can't use the mirror while driving so I said get it off my head or something to the effect of just knock it off my head." I guess the tone got it across to her and she knocked me in the head and then yells because the spider has went under the center console only to reappear a few minutes later when I became world's worst mom and forced her to smush it by herself. She'll be better off for it or in therapy. Either way she's a winner.

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On Sunday trying to get ready for church Bayli was dragging her feet and it was driving me crazy. She kept going and reading a book instead of finishing whatever it was she was supposed to be doing. I finally had enough and told her that if I caught her reading that book one more time I would throw it in the trash. I go on to finish getting ready and come back in the living room a little bit later and what do I see but her reading a book. I say "what did I tell you I was going to do?" She said "that was this book (points to one laying on the couch) not this one (points to one in her hand)." This must be the "getting off on a technicality" they talk about at trials. Next time I will say "a book" not "that book" to cover any book she may be holding at that time. Smart aleck kid! I really don't know where she gets it from.