I Want My Daddy!

My kids love their dad. I'm sure if you are reading this, and you have children, they love their Daddy too. It's normal...right?

Well, Belle will literally forgo all sorts of fun and frivolity to simply spend time with Daddy. She frequently complains that she will be homesick for Daddy when we have to leave on Monday nights to go to our Keepers meetings. (Note: Keepers meetings consist of a bunch of giggly girls singing, crafting, eating and playing 3,000 rounds of "Honey if you love me, please smile"--my point is that it is not a torturing experience.) She would rather stay home and spend time with Daddy.

Tomorrow, we are due to go into Chicago with a YFVS Choir Share event. As Murphy's Law would have it, Moo may have to stay home if her predictable seasonal allergy response hits "critical mass", rendering her a goobery, itchy-eyed, swollen faced mess with a slight fever. :(

What is Belle's response? "NO FAIR! (Sobbing) I WANT TO STAY HOME WITH DADDY TOO!" And then, the topper: "YOU MADE ME GO TO CHRISTMAS LAST YEAR!!!" (This was said in an accusatory, loud tone...yes, at that time Moo experienced the "privilege" of staying home sick with Daddy, while Belle and I endured the "torture" of yummy food and piles of presents).

Sigh. I love that my girls love their father. I'm just stumped a little as to how to deal with this...AND I'm feeling a little like chopped liver. ;)