Now and then my daughter will wander out late at night and want to talk about a seemingly random set of things. Tonight she said:
I wish [my 3 year old brother] were smart enough to solve equations but not smart enough to understand if I was using him to do my homework
I hope we have a snow day and then also the Internet cords get broken so there is no school
And I realized suddenly that these poor kids need more than just a good snowstorm to get out of (remote) school. They have to hope for a storm AND the Internet to go down
and then contemplating the cup in her hands, which came from a happy meal long ago and features a lenticular print of a Ninjago lego scene:
I think I know how this works, bevause notice how if I drag my fingers across it it gets stuck, so there’s some kind of thing that has the picture in two different ways sticking up. Because it’s not just magic because there is no such thing as magic except God’s power and I don’t think God uses his power on a magic cup.
Unless he was just being funny, I suggested.
No dad, God is not a funny man. Like, Dad, God made it rain for 40 days and 40 nights to drown everyone except Noah’s family. Everybody died. That’s not a funny man. There were good reasons, but I don’t think that’s very funny.
Okay fair enough.
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