Skeered, My Foot!

Susannah is a strange child. She plays the drama queen so fully that she ends up convincing herself. Here, she sits "skeered." She was so skeered to step into inches of water that she sat on the bank and looked pitiful in an attempt to soften my heart.


I played the sucker and lifted her over, only to watch her happily splash through the next half dozen puddles.


And again, she's so skeered as her sisters throw stones.


But two seconds later, she was lobbing rocks at their heads.