Kid Tales: religion, biology or semantics?

[smibbo]

Kids are sitting at table doing homework. A little plastic statue of the Virgin Mary is sitting on table. Usually, she sits on the counter above the sink so I have a place to put my ring when I'm doing dishes.

Me: what's the Virgin Mary doing on the table?
Son Number Three: who?
Me: the Virgin Mary statue.... why's this on the table? [picks up statue and starts to put it back]
SNT: What's a versionary?
[Baph cracks up]
Baph: [aside to me] new word! You know, someone who thinks up new versions, instead of having visions they have versions.
Me: yeah, that's pretty good.
SNT: [persisting] what's a versionary?
Baph: no, Vvvvirgin MAAAry
SNT: VVirgin Maary. What's a Virginmary?
Me: ['houston, we have a problem'] uh... it's a nice story...
[kids faces go serious - 'it's a nice story' has been recognized now as "mommy is stalling"]
Me: [foundering] she, uh, had a baby without a....
Baph: without a husband!
Me: noooo... she had a husband.. she, uh, just.... didn't have a.... father
SNTwo: Versionmary didn't have a dad?
Me: no.... she uh, didn't have a ...man to uh, give her the baby.... or something
[baph starts laughing]
SNT: versionmary didn't have a man for the baby? how -
Me: [thinking fast] SHE HAD A MAGICAL BABY, OKAY?
[baph cracks up. kids go back to homework]

Baph: nice save!
Me: shaddup.

Comments

Re: you do that

[the-yellow-king.livejournal.com]

I expect you to teach my future progeny how to argue and use the stubborn willfulness that they inherited from Dad.
*big grin*

damned! you guessed!

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

and of course you'll just looooove arguing with them once I get through with their indoctrination!