Chuck 8 yrs old - A Scissors conundrum ...

One more from 8 yr old Chuck ... "I have a conundrum" he says, "what if you needed scissors and you had a coupon for scissors but you did not have any scissors to cut out the coupon?"


Well now Chuck that is quite a conundrum!!

Chuck 8 yrs old- Half Full? Half Empty?

Chuck 8 yrs old made a brilliant observation or so I thought. Ya know how we hear people talk about how they believe people who say half full are optimists and half empty are pessimists? Well my nephew Chuck thinks we make too much of this. He said, "Ya know I do not really think it is that big of a deal because it is like this. If you fill a glass and drink half of it, it is then half empty, but if you fill it up only half way it is half full!"

Is that not genius?

Grayson 3 1/2 yrs old - Are you Happy?

Grayson, my grandson who is 3 1/2 woke up one morning and asked my daughter Salina if she wanted to play. Salina said, "Not right now, I am kind of grouchy, let me get my coffee first." Grayson proceeded to plop down in the living room, he plastered a big old grin on his face and said, "Well I am HAPPY!"


In a bit he went outside to play and when he came back in he said to Salina, "Mom, do this ... (and he plastered that big grin on his face). Salina flashed back a very animated grin at him and then he said, "You're happy ... lets play!"

Is this not a great motivational lesson in the old adage regarding having confidence or being happy in spite of it all, "Fake it til you make it"

Chuck 8 yrs old- The Bermuda Triangle

My great nephew Chuck (8 yrs old) was quizzing my niece Dana about the Bermuda Triangle the other day. After pondering the information she gave him he said, "When I get older and am ready to die I want to fly through the Bermuda Triangle to see if it's real. If I don't make it, it doesn't matter because I was going to die anyway." Love it!!

Braeden 8 yrs old - If all else fails resort to a joke?

Matthew is 9, Braeden is 8 and Matthew is intently playing a game on the iPad. Very intently ... so much so that he is not hearing (ignoring) every attempt Braeden makes to talk to him. Finally Braeden resorts to telling jokes feeling certain that will work. Still nothing! Braeden says, "UGGGH, Matthew I do not think you even know what a joke is!!!"

Braeden 6yrs old

Louis and I were looking at how the brace holding up the center of the curtain was torn out of the wall and Louis said I wonder how that happened? Before I could say that I think it is because the boys pull on the curtains too hard Braeden said, "The dogs get the curtains in their teeth and pull on them." Hmmmm ... I think that explanation is suspect because the dogs have never done that before until the boys moved in! Too funny the way he jumped right in there!

Matthew 7 yrs old - A Mom is a Mom is a Mom ...

The kids have it figured out, now they just need the t-shirt that says "If Mom says no ask Grandma or Grandpa or Megan. But Matthew REALLY has it figured out. He understands the power of "a Mom" and the hierarchy of the Mom figure in the family. He told me the other day as I was fixing dinner that he was not hungry and I said, "Well of course you are not after eating those 2 muffins". Now that is exactly what I said but just like there is French and Spanish and English there is also the Adult language and the 7 yr old language because here is how he translated that to his Mom. "Mom, Grandma said I did not have to eat dinner." She said, "Well I am the Mom and you have to eat dinner." As he flipped his hand towards the living room where I was sitting and cocked his head he told Jennifer, "Well she is YOUR Mom".

Then a few days later he came to me with a dilemma and I said, "Well Matthew that sounds like a discussion you need to have with your Mom." And he said, with a combination of surety and confusion in his voice, "You're a mom."