Two 'cdotes

[conuly]

1. Evangeline was with my mother, and apparently trying to sneak some sugar at the whole time. My mother had no idea until Evangeline, apparently feeling that she was about to be caught, suddenly said "Oh, look, my hand must have just accidentally fell into the sugar!"

*headdesk*

2. Now, Ana was talking to me the other day, and she said, out of nowhere, "Babies are free".

Me: Well, sorta, but you have to buy diapers and clothes for them and actually babies cost a lot of money, and that's just when they're LITTLE, they grow up!
Ana: No, no, no, I mean having babies is free.
Me: Well, it can be, but you probably would see a doctor during your pregnancy to make sure everything is all right, and take vitamins, and most people - not everybody! - but a lot of people prefer to go to the hospital to have their babies, and this all costs a lot of money, and then the baby of course, you have to buy slings and diapers and whatnot. Babies cost a lot of money.
Ana: NO! I mean that sex is free.
Me: *blinkblinkblink*
Me: Well, you kinda have me there, Ana. If you're paying for sex - or if other people pay you for sex - you're breaking the law. But you know, when you're older, you'll probably buy condoms and whatnot so that you don't get pregnant or sick from having sex, because condoms are a lot cheaper than babies.
Ana: But I want a baby!

(Ana, you should understand, is stubbornly stubborn. Unfortunately for her, as I pointed out just last night, I was better at being stubborn before she was even born. Then she argued with me over what stubborn even means.)

Comments

[trialia]

Well, you can get condoms for free in my country. *g*

[conuly]

Are they both good quality and fun?

[trialia]

Good quality, yes. Fun, I don't know if you can get the flavoured ones or whatever from the clinics, because I've never had occasion to get any for myself. But I do know that the clinics won't provide anything that doesn't have a Kite mark on it, and the Kite mark is the guarantee of a certain standard of quality. And they don't ask questions. Certain of the NHS trusts will also send water-based lube out in inconspicuous packaging to gay or bisexual men who request it.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Hate to break it to the little mite, but sex ain't free either.

(Somebody always has to pay, one way or the other, in kind or otherwise.)

Do I sound bitter?

[conuly]

Yeah, kinda.

[blackhanddpants.livejournal.com]

LOL! I offered my 7yo a chance to put some outgrown toys away for "her babies," and the idea blew her mind. Someday she would grow up and have HER OWN BABIES? Well, she's ready NOW. Her baby is going to be a little boy named Ezra (Ezra? Really? Ezra?) and forget free. She wants to buy clothes for Ezra, and toys for Ezra, and a very expensive bassinet that we saw at the consignment store today -- for Ezra, of course -- and a nice Maclaren stroller that Ezra will, of course, need, and ... the list goes on forever. She is utterly enamored of this nonexistent child.

I think she needs to make sure to tell any prospective boyfriend that she's planning to name their firstborn son Ezra. I think that's probably important.