Who Am I?

So old reputations are hard to get rid of. When I was younger, my dad use to tease me and one of my other sisters by calling us Anastasia and Drusila, while calling my third sister, Cinderella. I know, I can hear your outrage. He would call us this because me and my sister would gang up on the other sister. But it never really bothered me, because lets face it, Cinderella met and fell in love with a man who chose her based on her dress and her beauty, who hardly spoke a word to her before he proposed, and all of this happened within 24 hours! That's not the fairy tale for me.

Today, Claire and I were playing a Cinderella game. She tells me she wants to dance to the hmmm, hmmm, hmmm, hmmm song (So this is love), and I hold her hands and sing the words of the song. After the song is over, she immediately takes off running, looking back to make sure I am running after her shouting, "wait Cinderella, come back!" She gets a big laugh out of this. So after one of these chases, I decide its time for me to finish washing the dishes. Claire isn't happy that I cut short her game, so she comes up to me and says, "Come on, come here, Anastasia, come here." Apparently Claire has inherited a lot from her grandpa! Or, maybe I really am Anastasia material (I am starting to think that she got the short end of the stick in the story). But I don't worry about this at all, because I take stock in the fact that I am so obviously Laura Engles Wilder, and Elizabeth Bennett in their respective stories :-)