Our Planner

For those of you who don't know Mimi, she is a planner. She is constantly making plans for today, tomorrow, next month, summer, October (her birthday month), and even for when she is an adult. Today I let her talk to her cousin on the phone. As I walked back into the room, I heard her say: "In the spring, you and E-beth (another cousin) will come to to the museum with me. Will you think about that and tell me what you think? "

She is often the one who says "Let's play pirates, and then we'll have a snack, maybe we can have apples and peanut butter (her current favorite), and then we can play Mommy and Daddy (aka House)."

She has already planned who she is going to marry (Adam), the names and genders of her first three children(girl-Sweetsa-pizza, girl-Mimi, boy-Buddy...sound familiar at all?), and her occupation (doctor).

I have to admit that because of her I have become more of a planner...out of self defense! There was a period of time where she would ask every night as part of her bedtime routine, "What is the plan for tomorrow?" If I didn't have an answer, she would start giving me suggestions, some doable (we are going to the park tomorrow, Mommy) some not so workable (we are going to Arizona to visit Aunah!).

I don't mind her being such a planner, except when she starts planning for the family...i.e. family planning. She has informed me several times that we will be having two more boys and two more girls !!! And then she starts announcing her plans for the family as if they are in fact occuring (in December she announced at dinnner in Spanish Fork that we would be having a baby in October....NOT true, by the way!)