{"id":123,"date":"2011-11-14T21:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2011\/11\/ma-mere-kathy\/"},"modified":"2011-11-14T21:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T21:27:00","slug":"ma-mere-kathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2011\/11\/ma-mere-kathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ma mere, Kathy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Kai-Kai has a family album project due tomorrow and just showed it to me. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what she wrote about me (without the accent marks because I don\u2019t know how to put them in the text)

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Voila ma mere. Elle s\u2019appelle Kathy. \u00a0 Elle a 46 ans. \u00a0Elle est la femme de Scott. \u00a0Elle est petite. \u00a0Elle n\u2019est pas grosse. \u00a0Elle est brune foncee. \u00a0Elle a les yeux bruns. \u00a0Elle est penible, mais elle est intelligente. \u00a0Elle adore fair les magasins et manger au restaurant. \u00a0Elle n\u2019aime pas regarder les matchs a la tele.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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Not being a French speaker, I could still figure out most of the things she wrote, but penible<\/i>? <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s penible<\/i> mean?\u201d \u00a0I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is a pain in the neck,\u201d she responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo really, what does it mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s a pain in the neck.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wrote that about me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lots and lots of giggles to the point of bending over. \u00a0Then she translated the whole thing:<\/p>\n

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There is my mother. \u00a0Her name is Kathy. \u00a0She is 46 years. \u00a0She is the wife of Scott. \u00a0She is short. \u00a0She is not fat. \u00a0She has dark brown hair. \u00a0She has brown eyes. \u00a0She is a pain in the neck, but she is smart. \u00a0She loves to shop and eat out. \u00a0She doesn\u2019t like to watch games on the TV.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cI wrote it when you were being mean to me, and I was running out of adjectives because you were #6 on the list.\u201d<\/p>\n

Great. \u00a0Not only am I a pain in the neck, but I was #6 on the list after Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Andy, Auntie Michele and Dad. \u00a0(Much giggling about how I was #6)<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were #6 when I wrote the paragraphs, but you\u2019re #4 in the book.\u201d<\/p>\n

#4, #6. \u00a0Guess who I\u2019m thinking est\u00a0penible<\/i>?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kai-Kai has a family album project due tomorrow and just showed it to me. Here\u2019s what she wrote about me (without the accent marks because I don\u2019t know how to put them in the text) Voila ma mere. Elle s\u2019appelle Kathy. \u00a0 Elle a 46 ans. \u00a0Elle est la femme de Scott. \u00a0Elle est petite. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nMa mere, Kathy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kai-Kai has a family album project due tomorrow and just showed it to me. 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