Driving home this evening from Ash Wednesday mass with Haitian Konpa caressing over the mini-van speakers, I hear just odd bits and ends from the back seat where sits Baylor and Jameson. Hunter is chillin' to the tunes while Anna goes on her own lyrical tangent with impromptu and quiet rehearsal of the 5th grade "Snow White" song (spring concert), but Jameson is trapped in the back with the family talker and an Abraham Lincoln biography (book for young readers). Oh, boy, what he must be processing after attending our Catholic kick-off to Lent with altar statues all draped in dark purple fabric and having ashes smeared into a cross on his forehead only to then have his new and excessively lingual sister give him a dissertation the entire dark ride home. It began with something "Willie and Tad . . . and Robert was the oldest," and at some point moved on to "Obama," and eventually "She could have been the first girl president." You know, because apparently there can't be a discussion of Lincoln by a 2nd grader without expounding upon slavery, civil rights, and, therefore, the issues of race and gender equity.
Well, the wee girl is now in bed (early -- due to being unpleasantly lingual with her mother this morning before school), and so, now free from the girl's clutches, Jameson and his brother are engaged in a riveting round of Mariokart on the Wii.
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