Ghosts?

Landon came home from school this week and said that "Jack", a kid in his class, got into trouble. He kept talking about ghosts and Landon informed him that there were no such things as ghosts! Jack continued on, and said, "Well, what about God?"

Landon said, "God is NOT a ghost, He is a HOLY SPIRIT!"

You tell him, Landon! :-)

Mom, I wish you could have a girl!

It may have been the hours of shopping that Blake had undergone that had taken a toll on him, but as we walked into one of our final stores yesterday, he said that he wished I had a daughter. I told him that I was very thankful and blessed that God had given me my four boys and that I was happy with THEM. Well, at THAT moment, I may not have been super happy with them as only a couple of hours earlier, ONE of the those precious boys had knocked down 10+ racks of dresses in a perfect "domino fashion" in JCPenney. Nothing was left standing except for me and my four little angels!
;-) If I was ever in my life going to abandon those children, I am quite certain that would have been the moment. All, I could think about was "Stop, Drop and Roll yourself out of here"! I must have turned the color of Ronald McDonald's hair I was so embarassed. I am thinking that the super power of invisibility would have come in very handy at that moment. But, I digress...

Had the hours of shopping made Blake so delusional that he had forgotten that he wished he was an only child and argued non-stop with his other 3 siblings. Did he think that wishing for me to have a daughter would create less stress due to bickering and more time with him... In his mind, did he HONESTLY think that I had taken them out for a shopping day on the first day of Spring Break out of sheer pleasure and not NECESSITY? I later shared with them that I would have rather had a blood transfusion with an orangatang than take them all shopping with me. He may have been slightly offended by that...

Anywho... back to his wishful thinking for me. He asked why we could not just adopt a little girl. I told him that it was expensive to adopt and he says in a rather raised voice, "Well, that is like SLAVERY! You should not have to pay for a person!"

Now, do not get me wrong... I agree that slavery is wrong, but how do you shout that out at the Children's Place as everyone in there is probably wondering why my 10 year old is becoming very heated about the COST of giving someone a home. I tried telling him that you are not paying for the child, but rather for the legal costs associated with the process of adopting. Who knows what he understood about that conversation, but one thing I know... there is a pretty good chance that we were the topic of more than a few people's dinner conversations last night. Just sayin'...