This High Road
The other night my daughter and I found ourselves in an intense Candy Cane sword fight when she jumped up on a step stool that was in the living room from her earlier Christmas Carol performance.
In full narration form, I said to her, "ahhh... I see you will attack me from an elevated position! There is no way for me to win now..."
Thirty seven years of military history (and maybe a quick flash to the shower scene in the movie, The Rock.) has taught me that the team in the elevated position will always win.
Then I had a moment where I realized that maybe that's where the saying, 'take the high road' may have come from...
So in a moment of true insightful, motherly wisdom, I told Ellie, "Always take the high road kid - you will never lose." <3
Then she stabbed me in the shoulder with her peppermint wonder...
I quickly fell backwards and slid off the couch to die...
... Death from above by way of Candy Cane
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