Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

After having my daughter there were some conversations that I have prepared (or at least thought about) myself for. I have thought about how to teach them about God, death, pregnancy, and other issues that come up in the course of childhood and adolescence. the following topic I was not only unprepared for, but stunned to the point of speechlessness, hence the brevity of the conversation.

Ameryn: "Mommy, do you know what moonshine is?"

Me: "Do you know what moonshine is??"

Ameryn: "Yeah, it's beerd that bad people make and then go to jail."

Me: ???

Apparently, she and her Daddy watched a national geographic program about moonshine, and it's (in all but one instance) lawless makers. We did get more on track for a four year old when we talked about this:

Ameryn: "Hey Momma, do we have any space ships in our town?"

Me: "No baby, but they have some in Florida and Texas"

Ameryn:" Do they have aliens?"

Me:"No, they make them to send people into space so they can do things like walk on the moon."

Ameryn:" I wish I could go to the moon."

And as a little bonus, never in a million years could I ever have imagined having to say this: "Ameryn, Rogan was chewing on one of your little dog poops, you really need to keep those picked up." I couldn't make this stuff up:)