Quotes not to forget

Friday we visited Pinnacles National Monument.  I will write more on that another time hopefully because I don't want to fill this post with that.  It was such a beautiful time and place together, that I said something like, "This is the coolest place in the world!"  Ben's reply?  "Mom... have you ever been *home*?"

About a week or so ago, Ben randomly declared, "I always wonder what it would be like to be one of those kids whose mom and dad yell at them.  I just always wonder that."  This has been a period of sudden awareness of self for Ben; he is often wondering what it would be like to be various people.

Yesterday we were driving by the private school my kids used to attend and that I used to teach at.  Kevan started pointing and joking, "Ha ha, they're still in school!" (he still has friends there).  I laughed and said, "Ha ha, those teachers are stuck there until 4:00!"  I felt bad suddenly and said, "That's not very nice to laugh at them like that.  Well actually, the teachers have a choice about whether to teach there or not; the kids don't have that choice."  Kevan said, "They could decide they want to go to a different school."  My response (from experience teaching there) was, "Some parents don't really care what their kids want."  Ben replied without hesitation, "Our parents do!"

These were so heartwarming!  I wanted to write them down before they fade away.  Ben's comments are so out of my own frame of reference of experiences, thoughts and feelings as a child, but they tell me that we are at least doing *something* right.