IRC-Galleria

When children get to be a little older, they start having friends over, sleepover or dinner or something, and you find yourself having a dinner conversation with an eight-year-old. Like 'So, what are you reading?' or 'What are you doing?' or 'What time do you get up?', 'cause you don't have anything else to ask them.
'When do you get up in the morning?'. This one kid said: 'You know, like 6:15.'
'Wow, that's early. Does your mom get up with you?'
'No, no, my mom sleeps, she gets up later, but when I get up at 6:15, I turn on TV and make myself breakfast.'
'That's really impressive, what do you do?'
'Well, I can make cereals or stuff like that, I just can't make anything hard, like... toast.'
So we laughed, my husband and I, we couldn't stop laughing, but then it turns out, literally, last weekend my 8-year-old got up with our little 4-year-old and they went downstairs, he turned on TV and made them breakfast. And he made them toast, and jam. When we got down there, we were like 'Wow, this is fantastic, for the first time.'
He said: 'Yeah, but it didn't turn out so well, 'cause I put it in the microwave.'
So it's hard, toast is hard!

-Your kids must know what you do for a living. Have they seen you in films or...?
-Yeah, they don't care. Just the other day my son said: 'Hey mommy, how many Academy Awards do you have, because I don't see any around here!' So you realize that they have this vision of you, like a slaughtful, typical, frigid loser.