Shut your Trapper!

Erin, Kenner and Cindy made a run to Target, and while there Erin began begging for a Trapper Keeper multi-function binder/planner/junk collector for her school stuff. She used the usual 'cock-and-bull' arguments about there not being enough room in her current folder, etc., etc.
Finally, in minor exasperation Cindy relented, but still wasn't too pleased.

As they continued through the store on the real reason for going (exchanging and buying curtains), Erin kept asking Cindy, "Mom, are you mad?"

"No Erin," she would reply with a sigh, "I'm not mad."

Even as they were driving home the same conversation continued, but then it took a slight detour off the beaten track:

Makenna said, "No, Mommy's not mad. If she was mad she would be yelling and screaming!"

"No," Erin countered, "When she's really mad she either sighs, shakes her head, tightens her lips up, or walk away."

As Erin was reeling off the above, Cindy relates that her lips actually WERE pressed tight and she actually WAS sighing.

UPDATE: As I was typing this in, Erin came in to show off her new planner. She sat down next to me and began to point out all the nifty stuff. In the middle of reeling off all of the nifty features--and without skipping a beat--she pointed to a pocket and said, 'and this is where I will put my cell phone when I get one, and this...."

Let me just go on the record and say that the day she gets a cell phone will be the day that my heart has decided to skip all its beats permanently.....