Sam-isms

Sam after being inducted into the National Honors Society

Sam is our ward. She's been living with us since she began High School last year. My coworkers thought I was crazy when I told them we were getting guardianship over a teenage girl. After having one for a year I think everyone should get a teenager. Sure, she chats on the computer a lot and frowns when I drag her out of bed at 5 am for a bike ride, but she's fun to be around!

She's taken to riding road bikes with me and she's been hitting up Kristin for ideas on how to cook something more nutritious than ramen. :) She's an amazingly studious student. High school wasn't that long ago so I remember at least vaguely what it was like, and her's seems much harder than mine ever was. She's constantly doing homework, and only rarely does she balk at it.

And holy cow does she help out. I can't count the number of times I've come home from work thinking "I'm going to help the wife out today and clean X room." only to arrive and have it spotless because of Cinder-Sam. She's always volunteering to watch Elias so Kris, the baby and I can go out to Starbucks for a latte and a cribbage game (That's a baby date!)

Sam also comes with a variety of things Kristin and I refer to as Sam-isms. These are strange ideas that only Sam would think of or understandings of the world only Sam would have. We tease her about them constantly. We feel it's our duty to fill the role of mocking friends (we both had ample supplies of these growing up and Sam seems to be lacking them). We know that all kids say weird things but it's interesting to see what Sam's are compared to what ours were when we were growing up or what our kids will be when they hit the teenage years. I've decided to try and catalog them in this entry so I can look back and remember them. :)

• Sam pronounces Breakfast without a 'k', i.e. Brefast


What's the C for?



• She asked us the other day "What does the C in the handicap sign stand for?"


• Upon tasting kalamata olives she asked "What type of olives do they make wine with?"
  
• "Madonna's still alive?"


• When talking about Eva's June Birthday: "Wow, Eva will be able to celebrate almost all the major holidays before she's a year old!"


• When she cuts sandwhiches, she cuts half the sandwhich, turns it 180 degrees and then cuts the other half. It's cute.


• More to come as I think of them...

We like to give Sam a hard time about things like this, but it's all done out of love. She's a fantastic person and we've been very thankful to have her stay with us. She graduates high school in one and a half years and I'm not really sure what we'll do without her. Hmmm... Maybe we can convince her to go to UofA...