Polka Dots and Ditches!

Well, for a few years I have wanted laser surgery on my face to remove acne scars. However, after finding out the price I decided it might be shallow to spend that much money to change my appearance. Besides, the scars actually represent the passing of something painful, annoying, and ugly. So, I should be thankful for these scars and not trying to get rid of them....right? Well, 2 weeks ago I was tutoring my precious and beloved Ethan and Romea. Ethan is 6 and Romea is 4. I absolutely love them! In fact right after moving here to CA, they were living in our apartment complex while their house was being remodeled. Since I knew no one, anytime I would hear or see them at the pool I would run out and casually decide to lay out at that very same time....just so I could be around some children....and they were such fun ones! Now we have such a great friendship! ....Anyway.....last week Romea looked at my face pretty intensely, and then this was the conversation that followed her stare:

Romea: Miss Stacey what are those ditches on your face?

Miss Stacey: Oh, those bumps...well they are called pimples. They are no fun.

Romea: (still staring) No, not the bumps (touching one)....the ditches (now touching the ditch)...what are these ditches in your face?

Miss Stacey: (cracking up with laughter)...OH, those! Well, those do look like ditches, you are right!

Romea: But what are they?

Miss Stacey: They are scars...from when I use to have those bumps.

(She gently rubbed the ditches as to show me sympathy....and then hopped off.)

................................TODAY'S CONVERSATION WITH ROMEA.............................................

Romea: Miss Stacey, What are those polka dots on your face?

Miss Stacey:(remembering last weeks conversation I immediately pause to appreciate how hilarious the moment is) Oh, Romea.....those are freckles!

Romea: OH

...............FUNNY ROMEA MOMENT 3.......................................

So Romea was drawing illustrations for a story she told me and then she was going to draw me...and she says:

Romea: I think you look like a dead fish.

Miss Stacey: A dead fish?? Romea, have you ever even seen a dead fish? (I mean surely if she had she would not see such a resemblance)

Romea: Yes, and I touched it with the back of my hand.

Lucy: (Ethan's little friend) Nah, I think you look like a dead fairy.

Miss Stacey: Goodness, thank you Lucy. I'd rather be a dead fairy than a dead fish.

This is Romea (pronounced Row-May-Uh)

After today, I think I shall seriously reconsider laser surgery, or maybe something even more dramatic!