EARLY SIGNS

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Note that it is NOT my goal in life to have my kids follow in my footsteps professionally. I have comforted myself by believing that this relatively meaningless profession is allowing me to support my kids and foster in them a nature of giving such that they will grow up to join the Peace Corps and run soup kitchens...

I am NOT purposefully spawning advertising executives. But I have to say, I might be.

Testing Sarah on her science facts tonight - test is coming on Wednesday, of course, the day after a major Jewish holiday that involved food and frolic.

"OK tell me how volcanoes form in the middle of the ocean."

"So like in plate techtonics there's this thing called divergent boundaries? Like in the middle of the ocean, two oceanic plates pull apart and then magma comes up to fill in the space. But magma is hot and so it's less dense than the ocean water and so sometimes a VIOLENT EXPLOSION occurs and it might have led to the DEMISE OF THE DINOSAURS!!!!

"Also Mom. Look. Here's a picture of volcanic eruptions. Don't you think the ash clouds look like 2 moose? Look here are the antlers and there's its chin thingie."

Sigh.