“That’s an insult!” and other funny things the girls say…

Even though we try to live life in our house in such a way where “it is easier to be good”, squabbles over petty things at our house is inevitable. One such occasion was yesterday, when my two middle girls were fighting over a piece of plastic, of all things!

I received a Dr. Scholl’s insole in the mail as a free sample to try. It was one of those squishy, gel insoles, guaranteed to make feet happy. It seemed to be made of that same gel material that some of my children’s’ favorite toys are made of – that sticky, stretchy gel which makes toys such as this frog stick to walls and come to life. No wonder the girls found it so appealing!

I explained to the girls that this “toy” was actually just a shoe insole.

It was while the tug of war over this squishy gel insole was going on, that another daughter got involved, asking “hey, what’s that?!”

Gianna fiercely piped up saying with all seriousness (thinking she was pronouncing it absolutely correctly), “that’s an in-SULT”!

Well, that broke the ice and made us realize how silly it was to be fighting over this thing!

We laughed so hard at this, mostly because it sounded so funny that she really thought she was pronouncing the word “insole” correctly! This may be one of those “you had to be there” moments, but I thought I’d write about it because it was was a moment of cohension (through silliness) among us.

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