6. Mothers Can Do Anything

I made the mistake of giving Michael some Robin’s Eggs candy when he was about three years old.

“Mama, hatch the egg,” he says handing me a Robin’s Egg.

I was shocked. I had been asked to do many things in my lifetime. Hatching an egg has never been one of them.

“It’s candy,” I said laughing.

He clearly thought I was refusing to use my hatching abilities because again he said, more emphatically this time “Mama you hatch it.”

I have done many things for my children; I was not about to attempt to hatch an egg.

Not even a chocolate egg.

Not even for fun.

Though, if I thought I could have been successful, I could have taken out a full page in Ripley’s.

“You sit on it and hatch it,” I said, really not expecting him to do it.

I really should not have been surprised when Michael put the Robin’s Egg candy on the floor and promptly sat on it.

I decided to be a good parent and not tell him he could not hatch an egg either.