Funny Family Stuff!

Two Facebook Posts, I wanted to be sure to record here as well:

Prayer time at our house...yikes!! I hope we are typical, but maybe not. When it's time for family prayer at our house, our two kids turn into ten thousand cats and it's near impossible to get them in one place at the same time....and half the time I join right in because I know it will be a few minutes until we can all converge...without at least one parent getting frustrated and raising their voice to say, "You'd better get in here for prayer, dangit!!! NOW!" Lovely way to gather for what should be reverent. (And FYI, it's almost always me, not Darin.) So earlier this week it was Logan's turn to say the family prayer. We are all actually present, we bow our heads, fold our arms, and Logan starts to pray....and without realizing it he starts repeating his SCHOOL LUNCH NUMBER!!!! Somebody help us!! Prayer time has clearly become a routine chore around here. We did all bust up laughing, and Logan started over...a little more aware of what he was saying the second time.

My darn funny says-it-like-he-sees-it kid!! I was recently telling some family members about Logan's "Night of 1,000 Stars" book from last spring. The kids in our school each write a story in a 'real' hardbound book each year. Logan and Ellie have five now and we LOVE them. Anyways...I just got them out to look at tonight, and can't stop laughing at Logan's from this past spring. It's a Family Encyclopedia. Here are the funny parts. On the page about me, Miriam, it says "She likes to cook." Does anybody out there know me? Logan NEVER sees me cook. Ever. He also wrote "She never plays with us." Nice. I guess when he compares me to Darin, I don't. But man...ouch!! One of the five things on the page about Ellie is, "She likes to hit me." And, "She is not that smart." The first is true. The second, he thinks most people who are not math geniuses are not that smart. But the one that takes the cake, is one of the things he listed on his own page about himself......Right after "I am the smartest in my class", he wrote, "I have ass burgers." Clearly there was no teacher editing this book. Classic! He does have Aspergers, and I don't think he has ever seen the word in print before, but just heard us talk about it. So he wrote it exactly how he saw the word in his brain. Funny. Funny. Boy!!!