The Table
by carolynholm
Dear Mommy,
You yelled at me.
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
Is this regarding the little kerfluffle we had last night?
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
Yes!!!!! I was just sitting there and you yelled at me.
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
I did indeed. To get off the dining table.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
But it isn’t a dining table.
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
Of course it is, sweetie. It has always been our dining table.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
But the three of us have dinner every night at the little table in the kitchen.
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
We have two dining tables. There’s the everyday kitchen dining table and the dining room dining table.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
That’s not a table in the dining room. It’s a desk. It’s covered with interesting piles of papers and photographs.
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
Okay, I see your point. I’ve been using the dining room to sort out old photographs. But at any time I can clear them away to serve dinner. So it is indeed a dining table.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
That doesn’t seem fair. I wanted to look at the pictures. There are photos of me there! When I was a kitten!!!!!
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
Weren’t you adorable? There are pictures there of all three of you. And of my daughter. And family and friends. And old family pictures. Piles of pictures. We must have a million of them. Way too many! Time to scan the best and get rid of the rest. But I’m sorry, you are not allowed to get up on the table to look at them.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
Why not? Other people let their cats walk on the table.
Love, Mia
Dear Mia,
Every household has its own rules. Ours is No Walking on the Table. And not just for cats. Have you ever seen me walk on our table? No, you haven’t. That’s because in our family that’s the rule: no walking on the dining table.
Love, Carolyn
Dear Mommy,
Then I don’t think you should turn it into a desk.
Love, Mia
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