Life Lessons

Yesterday I overheard my kids having this conversation in the kitchen,

Jake: What do you want for lunch?
Evie: I have pasta-roni.
J: Ok, we have two flavors, Parmesan and Angel-hair pasta with herbs. Which one do you want?
E: Huh?
J: Parmesan or Angel-hair pasta with herbs?
E: Huh?
J: Ok, I'll make this easy for you. Do you want the pink box or the green box?
E: I want geen box.
J: Well, Evie, I want the pink box.
E: No! I want geen!
J: Evvvvie, I want the pink one.
E: No! Want geen!
J: Well, Evie you can't always have what you want and that is a life lesson that you are going to have to learn!

And with that bit of brotherly wisdom he brought me the pink box and asked me to make lunch.