Lets eat some yummy leaves!

OK! Funny story. When the girls came home from school a few days ago, Cora started asking for a snack. We usually have a snack when they get home to hold us till dinnertime. I started joking with Cora. "How about some grass for a snack?"

"Eww!" Cora said.

"Some leaves?" I asked her.

Cora started to say, "Yuck!" but Susan was sitting next to her on the couch. She got a gleam in her eye. "I had leaves for a snack at school today," she told Cora. "They were delicious! You should have some."

Cora looked at her warily, "your joking!"

"No, it is true." Susan replied.

Cora then got a determined look on her face and went to go eat some leaves. "wait, Cora!" I said, "You should not eat leaves. they are yucky!"

Cora did not believe her mother. She believed her sister. She went out and started to eat a leaf. Susan was watching her from just inside the door. Cora spit out the leaf. "She is spitting it out." she said to me and rushed out the door to talk to Cora.

I have no idea what Susan said to her sister. I was laid up on the couch with a sore foot, but i do know that when they came in a little while later, Cora had eaten a leaf and swallowed it! Susan looked very proud of herself!

I don't know how that idea that it would be funny to manipulate her sister came from. She doesn't even know what it means, really. I didn't know whether to laugh or gag at the thought of Cora eating leaves.

Susan did get talked to about what she did, and she was sorry that she had done something so mean to her sister. Cora looks up to her so much. It really is sweet. It got me thinking. Could Susan get talked into doing something she didn't want to do? I do not think so. She is too strong willed to. I have fought her tons of times to get dressed, do a chore, or something else that she didn't want to do at that moment. It was like coming against a brick wall. I do win those battles. It will be a win for her in the future to say no to sex or drugs or peer pressure. I pray that I will prepare her to do what is right, so she can use that strong will of hers for good and not for ill.