I'm Ready to go to Hawaii!

Dear, sweet precocious Kate. She is at that age where staying at home with Mom all the time is just not fun. She wants to go and "play at a friend's house," constantly. And I mean all the time, everyday, all day! She is relentless in her pleadings. I would love to have a full agenda of playdates for her, but we all know that that request is just not realistic. We may not have a life, but everyone else really does. Anyway, one morning she was deep in the process of her constant repetition of "I'm ready to go to so-and-so's house!" Pretty much demanding that I take her and so put out that I haven't done it yet. So I looked at her and said, "You know what Kate?! I'm ready to get on an airplane and go to Hawaii and sleep in, and take naps and eat what I want, when I want to!" I then began to try to explain that just because we want it, doesn't mean we get it. Such an easy concept, and yet somehow so hard to learn. Perhaps that is why our nation's economy is in it's current state....Anywhoo. Of course such a profound concept went right over her head and she said, (somewhat excitedly), "O.k. Mom! Let's go to Hawaii! I want to go too! I'm ready to get on an airplane to Hawaii!" Oh well. Eventually we will get there. By the way, she did get to play at the neighbor's house later that afternoon.