“Wake up! Let’s go! We are going to be late, again!”
“Wait. What? It’s the first day of spring break. Why do we have to wake up so early?”
“Spring break from American School, not Greek School. You know that Tessie.”
She pushes herself to get out of bed and start getting ready. When she passes her brothers’ rooms and sees them still sleeping, she shouts for them to wake up. I hear the screams, “It’s spring break! Why are you waking me up?”
“Because I have to go to Greek School and dad is at work so you have to come with me and mom. But if you let me quit Greek School, I wouldn’t have to go today and you wouldn’t have to wake up.” Tessie is giving her brothers attitude because they finished Greek School after 6th grade. She wanted to finish when they did, but she was only in 3rd grade. Both boys were not going to let her get out of doing her last three years since they couldn’t get out of it.
John comes into my room half asleep, “Is it too late for Tessie to quit Greek School right now?
Craziness of Being a Kouts 
Ha! Love the last line…so funny. The way you bring us into this scene and immediately establish tension on multiple levels is wonderful. Thanks for this!
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Your kids are the best! I love all the stories you tell about them… the delivery and all.
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This played like a scene out of a sitcom, I could see each of the “characters” emotional responses the way you described them. Loved reading this tonight.
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Love the snippet!
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Loved this slice, especially the last line. I’m guessing the kids didn’t win this one, did they?!
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NO! We have missed too many Saturdays because of laziness (on my part as well as theirs) and because of life circumstances so no more missing “just because”!
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Loved the last line. I could totally picture this scene as it was unfolding.
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Lol, last line was too funny!
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I love that they won’t let her quit so she can suffer the same amount of time they did! 😂
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It’s all about retribution and equal suffering in my household!
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