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https://jfb57.wordpress.com/2015/05/04/100-word-challenge-for-grown-ups-week151-3/
The prompt this week is: …Pink… + 100 words
The Pink One
“I don’t like this dress!” Like liquid diamonds, huge tears slid down Susanna’s plump cheeks.
“Do you like the Cinderella dress?”
“Yes. Is bootiful”
“Is it the same color as the dress you don’t like?”
“Y-es? I wear it to party?”
“No. This is a birthday party not a princess party.”
The five-year-old’s mouth puckered. “I wanna wear the pink one. It’s girlie-girl. It make circles when I go round and round.”
“Honey, it’s too small now.
“I not going.”
“And miss cake and ice-cream with your friends?”
Her eyes lit up. “Maybe princess dress?”
“No.”
Sigh. “Okay. I wear it.”
© 2015 Tess and How the Cookie Crumbles. All Rights Reserved.
How the Cookie Crumbles 
May 5, 2015 at 5:38 pm
My daughter had one of those – had to keep buying larger sizes!
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May 5, 2015 at 5:43 pm
Brings back memories. Your descriptions are so good. 🙂
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May 5, 2015 at 5:47 pm
Reasoning with a 5-year-old 🙂
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May 5, 2015 at 6:01 pm
A scene repeated in every home with a five year old. Nice.
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May 5, 2015 at 7:09 pm
Ha! Now I want a princess dress. You just reached out and grabbed me. Ah the frustration of trying to reason with the unreasonable, but I don’t blame her. It makes circles. 🙂
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May 5, 2015 at 7:57 pm
I couldn’t recall how a kid might express this but I felt good about the results. Kids are so darned confident in what they want and don’t want at such an early age now.
Thank you, Kanzen, for reading and being here. ❤
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May 6, 2015 at 4:36 pm
Always present for your posts!!!! and let me tell you, 85 year old mothers can sometimes be as trying as a 5 year old. sigh
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May 5, 2015 at 7:29 pm
I feel like that even now sometimes, not usually about clothes but about having to do something I don’t want to do or having to settle for something when I really wanted something else.
Once again, Tess, I don’t know how you do it. 🙂
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May 5, 2015 at 8:03 pm
I have had many moments like this. I hated being forced to fit a certain profile, box, behavior etc. My parents were old world. Sometimes that made living so confining. You too? 😮
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May 5, 2015 at 8:34 pm
Damn picky kids.
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May 5, 2015 at 9:16 pm
Hahaha! I begged to NOT wear them!!! 🙂
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May 5, 2015 at 9:26 pm
Sometimes it is the cake and ice cream that gets them every single time. Lovely Tess
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May 6, 2015 at 12:31 am
Definitely sounds like conversations of long ago with my own princess. You transported me back Tess.
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May 6, 2015 at 1:33 am
Conversation we have often with granddaughter who shoots up every day. Made me laugh.Thanks Tess
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May 6, 2015 at 3:44 am
Love the dialogue.
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May 6, 2015 at 9:49 am
Lovely story ❤ Brings back memories, trying to talk children out of something they’ve set their minds on 🙂
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May 6, 2015 at 10:41 am
Cake and ice cream often changes the trajectory of a conversation.
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May 6, 2015 at 11:55 am
I never had a princess dress, now I want one sighhh.
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May 6, 2015 at 1:21 pm
I feel the same way as the little girl… except about tiaras! 😀
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May 6, 2015 at 3:01 pm
Very cute story Tess ❤ I always wanted a pink princess dress, so got one for my daughter instead years later. Guess what? She wasn't interested. Typical
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May 6, 2015 at 6:36 pm
Oh the joy of children. They do get stuck on clothes. Not my daughter, though. She was a gem until she wouldn’t wear what I picked anymore. Yeah, still won’t.
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May 6, 2015 at 6:58 pm
I had that trouble with my daughter but my grand kids were allowed to wear whatever they chose and suffer the consequences. I don’t know how they learned to co-ordinate but they did and are little clothes horses. 🙂 🙂
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May 6, 2015 at 7:58 pm
Aww. Poor kid. Cute story, Tess. Vivid again. Hugs.
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May 6, 2015 at 10:09 pm
Thank you, Teagan. Yes, poor kitty.
I try not to use real cats in my experiments. 😀
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May 7, 2015 at 1:37 am
So cute! And I so get this, Tess! I remember taking Eli to the park when he was two or three and realizing that he was the only kids all dressed up like a kitty. I started noticing that this happened frequently. But they are young for such a short time, I wanted to indulge them and their imaginations. We still play dress up, and I still smile whenever I’m at the grocery story or the park and see a little princess, just like in your story!
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May 7, 2015 at 6:37 am
I know moms have these problems with little girls but I can’t relate. My mom manipulated me into loving whatever she wanted me to wear. My daughter is actually my step-daughter. I started having her full-time when she was nine. She was picking out her own clothes by then (with guidance).
It is a great story, Tess. I could picture the whole scene in the girl’s bedroom. 🙂
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May 7, 2015 at 11:57 am
Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Just had time for a browse in my usual haunts and Tess Karlinski faced the 100 word challenge again this week.. All of you who like pink say Aye… 100 word short story about a girls need to wear pink.
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May 7, 2015 at 4:03 pm
You are such a sweetie, Sally. Thank you.
{{hugs}}
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May 7, 2015 at 1:24 pm
You nailed it. Always a battle to see who will wear down first!
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May 7, 2015 at 2:03 pm
Sigh. That’s kids for you. Thank goodness a parent / parents know how to play the game. Wait till they’re teenagers. Much harder then. 😀 😀
Thank you for reading and commenting. ❤
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May 7, 2015 at 2:03 pm
I truly think some of the best hostage negotiators in the world could learn a thing or two from children!
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May 7, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Children are pretty smart, much smarter than when I was a child. 😀 😀 😀
Thank you for reading and commenting. ❤
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May 8, 2015 at 2:37 am
I hope I did the challenge correctly. What fun that was!
Melinda
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May 8, 2015 at 7:06 am
S.w.e.e.t. story and yes, you followed the instructions! ❤ ❤ ❤
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May 9, 2015 at 10:35 pm
Thank you, glad you liked it! Whew! I’m relieved I did it right!
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May 8, 2015 at 7:13 am
Oh, so you were in my household when my daughter was 5, huh? She refused to wear pants – ever. Even when I bought the most beautiful lavender matching pant and sweater set. NO. She is now 35 and does she ever wear pants? NO! Dresses, skirts, sundresses are the staple of her days. Don’t you love it? 🙂
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May 8, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Oh…….! So weet. I guess not having children I always find these stories very sweet even if I’ve only experienced them vicariously… I also love pink
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May 9, 2015 at 8:42 pm
Thank you, Olga. You are too kind. Who doesn’t like p.n.k.? ❤ ❤
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May 10, 2015 at 10:59 am
Sounds just like my little granddaughter. Little children are so easily bribed. 😀
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May 10, 2015 at 12:21 pm
Isn’t that the truth. Ha ha. I can be bribed too if you use the right temptation. 😀 😀
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May 10, 2015 at 12:48 pm
I love how you can depict the mind of a five year old! 🙂
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May 10, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Thank you, Debby. I don’t know where this came from but it felt ‘normal’. 😀 😀 😀
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May 10, 2015 at 1:05 pm
Another masterpiece! Love the story. I never wanted the princess dress but I held western snap button shirts over my mothers trying hand for many years!
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May 10, 2015 at 1:11 pm
I marvel at how determined and focused wee little kids are these days. ❤ ❤
Thank you, Sheri. Nice to see you. Hope you and Tom are well. 😮 ❤
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