With four kiddos running around, I’ve come to learn there are many funny-scary-humorous-interesting-never-know-what’s-next aspects of parenting. Sometimes, it’s simply their perspective, and how they express it, that keeps us on our toes. Here’s just a few examples from this week…

During supper one night the conversation somehow turned to 90’s music. Potato Boy was listening as Sissy was naming songs she knew that were so old they had to be from the 90’s when he speaks up with “Can you tell us what it was like to live in the 1900’s?” Sissy immediately added: “Yeah, where you alive during disco?” If you consider they were born when the “Y2K” scare was just a bad joke and have never mistakenly put 19– on anything, I guess it could seem like an ancient time. I’m just not sure where the disco thing came from.

And then there’s Lulu. Lulu and I were walking back to the house from the garden one morning when the dog goes running past as if in a race to beat us there. Lulu, after watching the dog run past, goes “Dad, dogs lick their privates. They don’t have toilet paper like we do.” I’m willing to bet that’s a thought most of us have never processed before.

With this group, who knows what’s next.