MyThreeDaughters

Over the past seven years of kid-dom, the dinner-table issue of dessert has arisen often. Like, every night.

Is there dessert tonight? What’s for dessert tonight? Did I eat enough to get dessert? How many more bites do I have to take, to get dessert? Is this a big enough bite?

Which brings us to last night. Dinner. Rosebud is just two, but she seems to have taken note of what works and what doesn’t, and she took a tact neither of the other two had yet tried. All the sudden, Rosebud called out:

“RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WANT DESSERT!”

Rosebud threw up her hand as she said it, demonstrating sound leadership. Elizabeth’s hand was up before the second syllable of “dessert.” Fontaine seemed caught off guard and just sat there, as did Wife and I.

This is where it reminded me of the great hand-raising scene in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” when Jack Nicholson’s character tried to round up enough votes to get to watch a baseball game on the communal TV. “Chief, put your hand up, we need ONE MORE.”

Lacking sufficient votes, Rosebud called out again:

“RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU WANT DESSERT!”

I wasn’t really sure if we even had dessert options, but I knew the ladies got me a cupcake earlier and I wanted to eat it, so I raised my hand. Fontaine and Wife threw their hands up too, making it a rare 5-0 landslide.

And a child shall lead them…