Molly Moves Out

I was kinda ticked that a children's book caused so much drama in my household today! Trying to be a good mom, and encourage Jack's "love of reading", we started the morning with the book Molly Moves Out about a little rabbit (one of 8 siblings) who decides it's too noisy and crowded at her house, everyone breaks her stuff and ransacks her room, and so she's movin' out. She actually does move out (no age given, but I'm assuming she's the eldest sibling, so maybe 12?!?!?) into a little house across the meadow. She goes for two weeks happy as a clam in her quiet, clean house, with nobody bothering her. By week 3 Molly is a little sad and doesn't quite know why. So we assume that it will end like it should end, right? She's supposed to figure out that she misses her sibs and her parents, and MOVES BACK HOME. It's a CHILDREN'S book! But, no. She meets a neighbor, a mouse, and the two become the best of friends. She's all but forgotten her family! Maybe she has actually forgotten her family, because one day they all show up on her doorstep and she is surprised to see them! The moral of the story is "leave your blasted noisy, irritating family behind and never look back." What???

So my crazy, emotional son has tried twice today, twice, to "move out." He stuffs his pillowcase with his junk and walks out the door saying, "I'm movin out!" When I say he needs to stay on our property he freaks out, "How can I move out on our property?? I have to go to Savino's house and live there!" Jack loves our neighbor Savino, he wants to go over there every day and play with him. Trouble is, poor Savino is in 4th grade and he is very kind and puts up with Jack, the Kindergardener. Jack truly idolizes Savino. I think he figures "movin' out" means he gets to stay with Savino. In fact, the second time he tried, this evening, he packed up again and said, "I'm movin' out! I'm going to live at Savino's house and be his little brother!" And then had a major meltdown when Tim told him that "sorry, you still have to live here with us!" You know I'm hiding that book now. We are never reading that again. What a dumb book.

I know this had nothing to do with my weight loss goals, but we made apple pie today from the apples we picked the other day, so, in other words, I ate apple pie, which doesn't make for inspirational weight-loss reading.