Excerpts of Conversation

We have some interesting conversations in our house. Today has been a prime example of this.

We spent a good part of the afternoon making up a story based on a combination of the old show "Airwolf" (Luke and Ethan have been watching episodes of it, thanks to Blockbuster's DVD program) and "The Never Ending Story" (which Ethan has never seen). The plot was loosely borrowed from "Airwolf", and the story is apparently never going to end.

We take turns telling portions of the story, and no matter what I told in my part, the story continues. I can kill off the bad guys, and Ethan's portion then starts with something like, "Well, everyone thought they were dead, but really ..." And the story is revived.

So I won't try to reproduce that story here, but here are a couple of the other things we talked about today.

"This says "door stop" but it's really crack cocaine." (Said while holding a door stop.)

"No mystery can dissolve us!" (And yes, he knows what dissolve means. I asked him, and he defined it for me.)

"I live in a cabin all by myself, and my brother ... (brief pause while he comes up with a name) ... Tom lives in a cabin near me. It's actually like a duplex. A cabin duplex. But we both died.

Now, you may think that I'm taking these out of context, or that if I related the whole conversation, they'd make more sense. You'd think so, but no. No, you'd be wrong. It actually just gets more confusing the longer you talk to him, sometimes. And, truthfully, each of these statements were the beginning of the conversation today.

Honestly, a discussion is not going to a good place when it starts out using "door stop" and "crack cocaine" in the same sentence.

So now, I'm going to go sew in blessed silence, since both boys are in bed.