The Sniff

THISISIT....My eldest child who is just 9 years old, doesn't particularly like reading, not like her younger sister who is 7, who loves reading everything.   Tonight she was a serious procrastinator.  oh yes at 9.   Started reading a book which we are now eventually on chapter 2, after 2 weeks and that was with me reading the last page of chapter 1 to get us there.

Anyway after she has compared the pencil drawing pictures in the book and complained that Anneli's (the charaacter) clothes have changed from page to page and flicked through the rest of the book, the questions started.
Lily " Why is the teacher called Miss Pears"
Me  "she's not married"
Lily  Why?
Me "maybe she hasn't met the right man" 
Lily "Well do you think she has children?"
Me " I hope not but maybe we will find out if we READ THE BOOK"

Read the book we did, with many more questions like, that doesn't make sense.  Well it wouldn't if you stop reading half way through the sentence,  finish the sentence and then it all becomes clear.
Well, no kidding, after more than 10 minutes we get near to finishing the second page.  Anneli is about to make a sandwich and apparently she spears the peanut butter!   I ask her if that is a word you would use when making a sandwich and she says maybe.  Her sister who is in the room says its spread. Yes spread the peanut butter.  So we all laughed about how would you spear the peanut butter on the bread  and then  -  it happens.
She jumps up off the bed, sniffs down her nose ( a new thing when she is annoyed I think with me) and says this is not funny and storms off.  Apparently I never do this with her sister, only her and they should be treated the same.
I assure you, they are treated the same, after the little strop and a chat we finish the page and then off to bed.  When I kiss her goodnight, it was quite a cool goodnight and a  quick kiss.  As I walked out a little voice said " I love you".  I knew then this had not finished and we would have to have a little chat before finally sleeping.
We met on the stairs, after I threw her newly acquired furry animal up to her.  A chat about the reading, being treated the same and why we laughed,  a nice kiss goodnight and a big I LOVE YOU hug from both of us.  My day completed...... THIS IS IT