Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Ramona, on Dangerous Manicures

Ramona has been wearing some fake fingernails around the house (a princess design -- a birthday purchase from Claire's.) She gushed about how much she loves long fingernails.

I then explained to her (was I feeling Short-Fingernail-Defensiveness?) that when I was younger, I wore my fingernails long. But after becoming a mommy and having to do so many practical things with my hands ("Like changing diapers," I told her, "and cuddling my babies, and brushing their hair, and cleaning, and cooking, and so on ....") I finally settled on a trim length that works for me.

She nodded sagely, getting it. Then she said, "Mommy! There's a lady at church, and she has really long fingernails. And she's a mom! She could impale one of her children!"

4 comments:

NotJustLaura said...

This gave me a good giggle - thank you!

Doreen said...

LOL!!! I so wish I had a "Ramona" at my house!!

tanita✿davis said...

(Should it worry me that Ramona and I are on the same page on this?)

Karen Edmisten said...

I'll bet you and Ramona are on the same page on a lot of things. :)