My head was always in t he clouds growing up- and even today as an artists. In elementary shcool my teachers would send notes home to my mother reporting : "Janie daydreamed all day and lloked out the windo during class." Partly to being so intrigued with my own ideas or even undiagnosed ADD- I now see that as an asset. So now when my nine year old daughter's teachers report that she is unfocused- I smirk because I know she is just focused on 'something else' just as I was.

I love this idiom. My three-year old daughter is a head strong curly girl. I had never hear the phrase before- but will use it now! I think it is intersting how we can endear even the most stubborn attributes in the ones we love.