<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">A few weeks ago I went into Natalie's room and saw crayon drawings on the wall by her bed.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Cleaned it off and then <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">asked</span> <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">told</span> reminded her we only write on paper and not the walls in our house.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Or any other walls – lest I unknowingly am raising a budding graffiti artist in my home.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">This morning I went in her room after she left for school.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">The crayon was back on the wall but this time I noticed something different.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">The writing was now math problems. Simple ones like 6+6 =
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">And the answers were right. I know it shouldn't have but that really made me smile.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Awwww, my little girl is a promising mathematician.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">Think this time it may be my fault since the printer paper she usually takes off my home office desk was no longer there. No excuse, but still.
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<span style="font-family:Georgia; font-size:10pt">I'm picking up some paper just for her to write on this afternoon and will give it to her to her this evening when I remind her again to not write on the walls.</span><span style="color:#444444; font-family:Georgia"></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in; line-height: 14.25pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Next stop –</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Tonight I’m not embarrassed to say I will be watching part 1 of the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Real Housewives of New York City</em> reunion special and the premiere of the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Real Housewives of New Jersey</em> season. Everyone will be watching those Joisey girls. I can’t wait! <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Tomorrow I have </span>meetings, meetings, meetings galore before I head out of town again for the rest of the week. Ha! What else is new?!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin: 0in 0in 0.2in; line-height: 14.25pt;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Car Song</span></strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> – “</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooa8nHKPZ5k"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #17418f;">What You Know About Math</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: #444444; font-family: &quot;Georgia&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">â€ by Ethan and Alan</span></p>