War on the Front Lawn

The other day as I was cleaning up the house... all four kids and Alan ran around the house with air soft guns playing "war"...Mas (my 9 year old) tried to end the war, declaring himself Barack Obama (didn't work, no one listened to him). When I posted this on facebook, someone took it the wrong way, but I wasn't making a political statement as much as I was marveling at how we see truth in our children's interpretation of our world. In their innocence and naivete our children may believe that war can be ended by one great leader. They've yet to understand that war is human nature and much more complicated than that.

Ant Trap of a Different Kind

I laughed one night at the beginning of the summer, when the ant problem is the worst at our house. Mason noticed some ants were finding their way into the kitchen. He worried that they would find their way back to his bedroom. When I tucked him into bed he let me know that he'd taken care of the problem by placing his own "ant trap" in the kitchen. I went back to the kitchen and on the floor near the refrigerator was a plastic fork with a jellybean stuck on each tong. Mas says "I figured it would keep the ants busy all night and they wouldn't make it back to my room"