SCENE: Church hallway - picking up a 6yo and a 9yo from their classrooms after church, each with a huge piece of construction paper decorated with hearts, a notice about next week's verse, a notice about something I didn't read and a collection of heart-shaped lollipops and pins in the shape of crosses, and a stapled-together miscellaneous piece of paper.
SCENE: Walking across the windy church parking lot. Children no longer holding any papers, but me holding all of them.
ME: How come I always end up carryng the papers?
9yo: Because .... (Quickly she whispers in her sister's ear, attempting to get her sister to say something to me. Her sister refuses.) Because ... (she repeats).
ME: Because what?
9yo: Because we're too sophisticated.
ME: Hmmm. You're too sophisticated to carry your papers?
9yo/6yo: Right.
Silence.
9yo: Grandma?
ME: Yes?
9yo: What does sophisticated mean?
Hehe...I love that story. Thanks for sharing it! :)
Posted by: Melinda | February 09, 2009 at 03:13 PM
Yes, I think actually it was encouraging that they didn't know what it meant - however, now they do, because I explained it to them :)
Posted by: cbcsparksdirector | February 09, 2009 at 07:34 PM