Charlotte's Prayer

Dear God,
You are the best person in the whole world.  Thank you for giving us food to eat and a home.  A nice home, so that we can live longer than the animals and insects....because insects get stomped on and the animals get hunted and eaten for food or something.  I really care about the animals.
Amen.

Conversations

Conversations in our house are often hard to follow because of all the interruptions and each of the girls trying to jump in the conversation. I feel like a referee fielding questions from both sides of the court when talking with the girls. Take this conversation for example.

Emma: Is there a civil rights leader named Helen Keller who was deaf and blind?

Me: There was a woman named Helen Keller who was deaf and blind. I guess she might be considered a civil rights leader.

Charlotte: What does deaf and blind mean?

Me: Deaf means you can't hear and blind means you can't see.

Charlotte: Well, if you are blind, you can't really do anything.

Me: Well, some people who are blind use canes to help them get around.

Emma: Cocaine? I thought that was a drug?

Me: Not cocaine, canes - kind of like a stick.

Charlotte:  Like a man-made stick or one found in nature?

Me: They are usually man-made.

Emma: So was she a civil rights leader or not?  That's what I read in the book during math class.

Questions about God

My favorite time of day with the girls is bedtime...and, no, it's not because they are about to drift off to dreamland.  I love talking to them at night when there aren't any other distractions and I can hear what is on their little minds.  They ask some of the funniest and toughest questions when they are all tucked into bed at night.  These two questions popped up in the last few days.

Question One

Charlotte: If God lives in your heart and you are healthy and eat healthy food and your heart is beating really strong...(pause)...is he okay in there?

Me: (pause) Uh...

Charlotte: Yeah, I think he is okay in there.

Me: Yeah, I think so too.

Question Two

Me (reading Charlotte's pick of the night, Cinderella)

Emma (interrupting): I know this has nothing to do with what we are reading, but does God have a wife?  I mean some people say he does, but does he?

Me: I have no idea. It doesn't say anything in the Bible about God having a wife.

Emma: Well, some people have Bibles with crazy handwriting and it says he has a wife and funny hair.

Me: Okay, well, I don't know.