I'm doing that thing again where I think, "Gee, it's been so long since I posted that I need to post something good." Maybe I will just tell you a funny story instead. My second-grader has been practicing cursive capital letters. He was surprised by the shape of a capital S. "I don't understand why it's so curvy," he said. "Why did they decide it should be so curvy?"
I said, "Oh, sweetie, I don't know why. They decided it a long long long long long time ago."
[brief silence, while I think about the swirling letters in the Declaration of Independence and Joe thinks about his personal definition of "a long long long long time ago."]
"You mean like in the 1980s?"
Hehe, on the flip side of that coin, today my 6 year old said "Mom, do you remember that story you told me about the redcoats are coming? … Were you alive then?"
Posted by: Maria | April 06, 2010 at 10:58 PM