Today I was hanging our laundry because our dryer is broken (broken dryer - grrrr). Felicity was watching me work and commented on how much this situation sucked (paraphrasing). The thought popped into my head that maybe this would be a great opportunity to teach her that not everybody's life is so easy. I understand that this is not a life-changing lesson, but mothers live for these sorts of moments. Anyway, I proceeded to tell her that her Auntie Sarah hangs her laundry all the time because she doesn't own a dryer. That's not technically true, but Sarah's drying situation, like EVERYTHING ELSE in Japan, is complicated and not worth explaining to a 5-year-old. So I tell her this little tidbit to give her a broader perspective of the world. She looks me dead in the face and mutters "classic".
Classic.
