~Culinary Conversations~

After cooking some chicken-sausage noodle soup last night b/c Mark was working late...

Eamon:  "Mmm, you cook real good, Mommy..."

Me:  <Shocked at being complimented on my cooking b/c I am not known for my culinary skills...>

Eamon:  "I mean, you cook sausage real good."

Me:  "That's more like it.  And I have a secret - the sausage was pre-cooked."


I can only be good at so many things and cooking will never be one of them - mainly b/c I don't have the patience for it! ;)

~Dumbledore Conversations~

While driving to the library the other day...

Eamon:  "Mommy, what's that person's name that's in charge of Hogwarts?"

Me:  "You mean like the person that would be the principal?  The Headmaster?"

Eamon:  "Yeah, the headmaster.  What's his name?"

Me:  "Albus Dumbledore."

Eamon:  "Yeah, Dumbledore!  Well, I feel sad for him..."

Me:  <expecting something to do w/ Dumbledore's, ah, "accident" but not knowing how he would know that much yet about the later books & movies>  "Really? Why?"

Eamon:  "Well, I'm sad for him because, you know those jelly beans that taste like all those flavors?"

Me:  "Yeah..."

Eamon:  "Well, he got a booger-flavored jelly bean AND a vomit-flavored one and that's really sad b/c I think to make them those flavors, they have to put a little bit of booger and a little bit of vomit in the jelly beans."


I guess that would be a sad fate for a jelly bean lover! ;) 

~Snarky Conversations~

We interrupt your regularly scheduled program to bring you a special segment...
'Snarky Teen Conversations: Is Foreign Language Education Really Necessary'?  ;) 

S.T.:  "Why should I have to learn another language?  If someone can't speak English, it's their problem not mine."

Me:  "Expanding your mind is never a bad thing and the more ways you can communicate with people, the better off you'll be!  Besides, you never know when you might be desperately trying to find a way to Perachora, Greece so you can jump off the cliff into the [possibly] shark-infested water below and you have to ask a cab driver, 'Posso kani?' to find out how much the fare is to there from Athens."

S.T.:  <blank stare>

Me:  "What?  That happened to me once.  Well, that and I liked to buy souvenirs so knowing how to say 'how much' was a very important part of my vocabularly that summer..."

S.T.:  <bark of incredulous laughter>  "Yeah, right!  Like you did any of that."

Me:  <smiling knowingly>  "You don't believe me?  Why not?"

S.T.:  "You're a librarian.  You watch through a window while other people do things."

Me:  <laughing>  "Ouch!  You don't think I did anything exciting in my long-lost youth?  Take a guess what my undergraduate major was in college."

S.T.:  "Probably something to do with germs.  You seem like someone who's a germaphobe."

Me:  <laughing to think about how little the thought of germs crossed my mind as we would ravenously eat our lunches mid excavation, hands covered with dirt, bat guano, and bone dust! Although I have to hand it to the kid - I have become a bit of a germaphobe since Eamon came along but what parent isn't?>  My undergraduate major was Anthropology, with a concentration in Archaeology.  And that's what I used to do for a living many years ago."

S.T.:  "What's that mean?"

Me:  "It means I dug up old stuff and dead people."

S.T.:  "Mmmmhmmm, sure you did." 


I'd break out the photos but the Snarky Teen in question would probably just think they were photoshopped. ;)     

Perachora, Greece (web pic)

~Kicky Conversations~

Before dinner the other day...

Me:  <dancing goofy near Eamon>

Eamon:  <kicks me>

Me:  "Hey, what was that for?"

Mark:  "Did you just kick your mom?"

Eamon:  <seriously> "Yeah, but very gently..." 

What can I say?  The kid has a way with words... ;)

~Alert Conversations~

While discussing Eamon's day after picking him up from school...

Me:  "Hey, what's that picture you're carrying?  Did you draw that today?" 

Eamon:  <nonchalantly>  "Yeah, it's just another one of my masterpieces."

Me:  "Ah, I see...  So how was your first day of Alert class?"

Eamon:  "Good.  Tristan A. is in there too.  <sounding surprised>  And he's actually really kind of smart!"

Me:  "Oh, just as smart as you or smarter?"

Eamon:  "Smarter."

Me:  "Really, how can you tell?"

Eamon:  "He finished his worksheets quicker than me."

Me:  "I see..." 


Apparently speed is the key to intelligence... when you're seven! ;)

 

~World Record Conversations~

While at the library...

Eamon: "Mom, can I get this Guiness World Records book?!"

Me:  "Of course!"

<starts pulling the 2012 book off the shelf>

Me:  "Sweetie, don't you want the 2013 one?  That's the newest."

Eamon:  "Actually, I'm going to get both and read them so I can see which parts are different in each book." 

Me:  "Ummm... <trying not to let my surprise at his rather scholarly endeavor discourage him> Sure, that's a great idea!"