A Pair of Dreams

Waking up this morning, Joseph mentioned that he had spent most of the night dreaming. In one of them, specifically he was in the army, but overall, kind of a stressful dream. After Joseph had left the room, while I was sitting at my desk, Caleb running down the hall, "Mom, I had a dream! Where are you?" When he found me, he asked me to snuggle in bed with him so he could tell me his dream. "I dreamed I was in the ARMY!"

I am NOT making this up. Both of my men dreamed of being in the army last night. I am surrounded by warriors.

"I was a bowman and I pulled my arrow back like this to shoot this bad guy and he said, 'Don't shoot me!' cause he was a 'fraidy cat. But that's when the dream got bad." I asked him how and this was his reply, "They told us we couldn't shoot at the bad guys anymore. That was no fun."

On Barking Abe

Abe was barking out the upstairs hall window. As is my habit, I came to see if it was justified. I asked, "what are you barking at, Abe?"

From behind Caleb's closed bedroom door, I heard, "I don't know what Abe is barking at BUT IT'S STARTLING ME!"

On Why Pants Were Designed as They Are

"Mom, I just thought of something." Caleb called up to me from downstairs, having finished using the bathroom.

"Maybe the reason they made pants to close [in the front, zipper/snap] is so dogs won't lick your buns. I was remembering when he [Abe] did that a few weeks ago."

Could He Be Mocking His Dad?!?

Joseph was lamenting that the kitchen was such a mess again so soon after he had spent too long getting it all shiny clean last Saturday. Caleb suggested that he just clean it up again if he was so troubled by it. Joseph pointed out that time constraints were somewhat of an issue with this solution. Ever helpful, Caleb offered that Joseph could just get up SUPER extra early the next morning. Joseph wondered why exactly he would want to do that.

"So that you can clean up your PRECIOUS [dramatically emphasized] kitchen, of course."