Hug Twice

Or maybe resiliency.  Something like that.

I often think of CJ as being inflexible - he likes things a certain way and he gets very out of sorts when things are changed without warning.  And he’s so smart you can’t fool him at all - we tried to play Rock Band at my parents’ house and gave him an unplugged instrument and he knew it wasn’t hooked up at all and got very cranky.

But my kids are more flexible than I think.  On Sunday, our car broke down on the NY Thruway - twice.  (We thought it was fixed inbetween the first and second time).  Both times we had to wait for a tow truck to come and then get towed to a service station.  Both times, my kids did fine.  They were tired, they were cranky, but they held up better than I did.  And when we rented a car to get back home, they cheerfully were transferred to the new car and rode home without incident.  For 12 more hours.

Thank goodness.  At least two of us were calm. 

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