Erin's Fable

Erin was given an assignment to write a fable with the words heir, sect, toleration, persecute, geocentric, and heliocentric. After helping her with the definitions, and locating some morals to choose from, she came up with this little beauty...

Once there was a prince and princess. Both of their families called each other sects because they were from different religions. The Princes geocentric religion believed that their God resided at the center, the earth, looking out upon them. And the Princess' heliocnetric religion believed that their God lived at the center also, the sun, watching over them. They were both talking aobut how they felt it was their duty to provide heirs for their families. Also about how their children would be persecuted.

A couple of years later the prince and princess got married to different people. Neither of them were happy with their lives and had barely any toleration for it. As their miserable lives went on and on their children finally grew up and moved away. The children also had married. A few years after that their partners had passed away. The prince and princess, now king and queen, finally met up with each other. After their long journey without each other they had great joy in seeing each others faces. Even though they hadn't had long before their lives would be over, they made the best of it and put all of their troubles behind. The moral of the story is the worth is in the value, not the number.

Hailey's Broken Moon

The whole family was coming out of Erin's open house last night, and Hailey looked up at the sky and noticed the first quarter moon. She stopped and looked at all of us and asked "Who broke the moon? Did WE break the moon?"

Hailey's Bedtime Question Session

Tonight's dialogue, after reading and singing (I really don't transcribe these nearly as often as I should):


Hailey: When I grow up, how many kids am I gonna have?

Dad: Well I suppose as many as you would like to have.

H: (holding up the only hand not under the blanket) I want this many kids...what are their names going to be daddy?

D: Well, baby, that's up to you. What names do you like?

H: What's Erin's middle name again?

D: Victoria

H: Yeah, Victoria...and what's Mommy's middle name again?

D: Yvonne.

H: Yeah, yeah, Yvonne. Victoria and Yvonne. And Grandma Sheila. Ummm Sheila.

D: What about if you have boys?

H: Um, what's your middle name?

D: ...Hubert.

H: Um, James, and what's Nicholas' middle name?

D: Didn't like Hubert, huh. Nicholas' middle name is James.

H: ...Oooh, Poppa, I mean Jack...Poppa Jack. ...What are they going to look like Daddy?

D: Okay, kid, time for sleep...

H: Goodnight.

Nicholas the Responsible

Nicholas, who is 10 years old, rides the bus home with his brother Matthew, 5 years old and just in kindergarten. Matthew follows him around like a shadow, as all younger siblings do. Usually Nicholas is pretty good, but of course, there are times when he can be pretty upset with his little brother. This can be compounded by the fact that Nicholas goes to Matthew's classroom everyday to get him ready to wait for the ride home.

This past Friday, Nicholas rode the bus home with a friend, so Matthew had to get picked up on his own for the first time. Yvonne went early so he wouldn't have to wait in the line, but the first thing Nicholas did when he got off the bus at his friends house was to call home and make sure Matthew was okay. He really is a good big brother, no matter how frustrated he gets...