And What Do We Learn From This Children?

The Imp makes me laugh. All the time. She truly has an aversion to the outdoors.  The hot, humid air aggravates her asthma.  Bugs are, well, beyond annoying. Snakes (which we have even in suburbia), are horrid. And she hates to sweat. Last week she was reading an article in the newspaper about a group of teens attacked by a bear. The teens were in Alaska for some sort of survival training and they were on their own at its culmination.  She read the story aloud to me and then says, "And what did we learn form this children? Never, ever go into nature!"
The girls are starting to pack for their trip to France and Spain for World Youth Day. The Imp realizes she only needs to bring the right shoe of every pair as her left foot is broken. All of a sudden her entire face lights up and she exclaims that she can now take twice as many different shoes.  They have to pack light and limiting her shoe selection to just 4 was killing her. She really loves shoes.
We spent Tuesday cleaning out her closet. 2 full bags of trash (primarily old school stuff) and 4 full bags of give-away. She gave away an entire wardrobe of clothes...T-shirts, casual shirts, blouses, dresses, slacks, jeans, shorts...the whole shebang. Her room is not the big. I'm still not sure how she had so much stuff in there.  We didn't even get to her desk.  Took the give-aways to Goodwill yesterday.  Could have a yard sale, but not for a while with all the other stuff we're doing and we really have no place to store the bags until then.
A friend of mine brought a no-bake cheesecake type of dessert to our house awhile back. Everyone loved it.  I don't really like making crusts, so I made the recipe and just spooned the concoction into individual dishes.  I got some fresh blueberries and strawberries.  So for dessert we had this wonderful cheesecake that everyone got to pile high with fruit. The best part was having the fruit out, so after eating the fruit with the top layer of cheesecake, you could put more fruit in for the second half.  The recipe is soooo easy.  1 package of light cream cheese, 1 container of light cool whip, and 1/3 cup of sugar.  Beat the cream cheese and sugar.  Fold in the cool whip.  Chill. A great summer treat.