God Made Gravity to help Stick Us to the Earth

Having a conversation with a 5 year old over meat sauce and macaroni is pretty interesting.  Somehow we started talking about how meat sauce looks like the crust of the earth, then we moved on to how macaroni resembles rocks and logs and sometimes funny looking animals.  I was quite intrigued by her sense of how the earth looks and how it was created and how it was shaped, she knows quite well that the earth is round.  As she went on to explain to mom and dad that while the earth might look flat, because we can see for long distances, the earth is actually round, and the reason it looks flat is because it's such a big ball that our eyes make it look flat.

So I started asking her questions about how she thinks the earth got here, and did she think that there may be other places that are like earth.  She began to explain that, God made the earth, and she was pretty sure that He had made other balls, called planets, that looked like earth, but she wasn't exactly sure how many or if there were people on those balls.

Our conversation went on for a while about what the earth was made of, and how big it was, and why people could live on this "planet".  Then she asked me if I knew what a planet was?  I told her I thought I did, that when I was in school I was pretty sure that one of my teachers had explained that to me.  So she told me that since it had been a "LONG" time since I was in school, that maybe she needed to explain it to me once more, so she did!  "You see there are lots of other balls out in space, and they float around one big giant ball, the sun, and some of them are big and some are really small, and some (amazingly) are named after cartoon characters!"  That's where she got me!  Cartoon characters? I asked!  She said "YES" cartoon characters!  I asked which ones? and she told me Pluto, you know Mickey's dog?  Ah!  yes I didn't realize that.  She said "Mom, there were so many of those balls out there, they just couldn't think of lots of names to name them, so they started having to use cartoon characters names".  Well that made sense to me!  So on we moved to why Pluto and not Goofy!  She said it would be "im-mapro-priate" to name it Goofy, since that was a "funny" name and this was serious business!  AH!  again I was trumped by her knowledge!

Then the "piece de resistance" (with all of the French hyphens and dashes) was just how do we stay on this "earth" without floating into space.  "Well, you see, God made something called gravity!  And thank goodness He made it!"  I asked why?  "The gravity is what God uses to "stick" us on this earth, and it keeps us from floating out into space.  If he hadn't made gravity then we might not be sitting here eating macaroni and meat sauce!"

So there you go!  There are lots of balls out there that float around one big giant ball, and at least one of them is named after Mickey's dog, and there is something called "Gravity" that sticks us to our ball so we won't go floating off into space and not be able to sit around a dinner table and eat meat sauce and macaroni!  It's very simple...and I love lessons from a 5 year old!  They make my day!

Puppies in the Potty

Just wondering how many moms out there in mommy land have ever gone to the bathroom and found bobble head puppies floating in the toilet?  Well, yes you've guessed it...for some reason poop and potties are a very big part of my life.  I went into the bathroom and shut the door, mainly because I never and I mean NEVER get to go pee alone.  Either there is a kid, a cat or a dog that follows behind me, the kids talks to me, the dog waits till I sit down then either licks my face or sneezes on me, and well, the cat, yes the cat will normally stand up on his hind legs and paw at my face while I'm on the potty!  So right before I manage to do the getting ready to go to the bathroom stuff, I see something out of the corner of my eye, to my great surprise there were 6 bobble head puppies floating in the toilet.  Now what to do?  I start to fish out the puppies, while yelling "who put the puppies in the potty?"  I can hear laughing going on, then I hear "MOM!  Don't flush the toilet!"  Well, really now!?  I'm not that stupid!  So as I am fishing in the toilet, several of the heads start to fall off of the puppies!  Then I really got mad, and when I get mad, hysterical laughter is not far behind.  So of course all I could think was, wow this will make a great Facebook post or better yet another story for my blog!

I let in the puppy floating culprit, so that she could help me take the floating pups and bring them to safety and a bath.  We did manage to get them all out, heads included, so of course I had to ask the big question, "why on earth would you put your puppies in the potty?"  Her answer was not one I wanted to hear....she told me that she accidentally dropped them in there AFTER she had peed, she was trying to reach for the toilet paper with the puppies in her hand, she couldn't get the paper so she put the puppies in her lap and the inevitable happened she dropped them and didn't want to stick her hand in there to get them out!  "GREAT so that means I just stuck my hand in PEE!? "  "Yes Mommy, but you can wash them with soap and water, you'll be fine!"  You'll be fine, my famous last words to anything that happens around here, and now I'm getting it back from my 5 year old.  Now I know how they feel when I say it to them.  But on the other hand I always flush the toilet and I never drop my puppies in there...so my "you'll be fine" is much different from her "you'll be fine".

Then I started to think, where's the toilet paper???  So, I ASKED!  I don't know why I ask any questions around here, but her answer was, "I put it in the trash can, cause I didn't want it to get mixed up in my puppies!"  Of course!  Who would want to mix up nasty toilet paper with bobble head puppies in a toilet full of pee!?!