There's No Pressure

Hello humans,

I must say, while I enjoy your young humans for their entertainment value and because they seem to especially like me, I don't understand why everything has to revolve around them. One of those little girls, Elspeth, told her mother that she could hardly wait to come and visit. She said it would be the most fun ever!

Ok! Now that is all well and good, but now Missy Linda is going to take that seriously. Who in the world knows what a five year old little girl thinks would be the most fun ever? Is it playing with a pile of Barbies and all their friends? Or going to the indoor place that is full of those huge blow-up jump-on and jump-in toys? Or could it be coloring with the new markers that can blend colors? Or is it going to the zoo? Or is it eating lots of extra treats that will ruin her little white teeth? Or is it all the popcorn chicken she can eat for as many days in a row as she wants it? Who knows? I certainly don't!

I wouldn't want to be in Missy Linda's shoes! She has to figure out what makes a five-year-old girl have the most fun ever while also making sure a seven-year-old, a three-year-old, a two-year-old and a one-year-old have the most fun ever. And all at the same time! That seems like too much pressure, don't you think?

Missy Linda says that if, at the end of the day, they are all alive, there have been no trips to the emergency room, no one has cut any one else's hair, no gum has been ground into the carpet or anyone's hair, the walls have no spontaneous art work on their surfaces, no one has a sprained ankle from plastic high heels, and all the pets are uninjured, then it has been a successful day! But I know that secretly she wants them all to have the most fun ever, don't you?