When the Day Homeschools Itself

I’m kind of lazy, so I like it when the homeschooling comes easy.

Maya was still sick (as evidenced by the strategic toilet paper), so we missed watching the inauguration at Studio 35 with our entire neighborhood, but we managed to have fun anyway. Well, I did. The girls were kind of over it months ago when we dragged them to the Springsteen for Obama shindig. Nonetheless, Lena and Liberty did get a little thrill when CNN announced that Obama would be using the Lincoln Bible for his swearing-in ceremony. We’ve been reading Abraham Lincoln: 10 Days that Shook Your World so that was exciting for them. A little less exciting was the introduction of the Supreme Court because I guess when we read about the Dred Scott case (day 2 of Lincoln’s 10 days thingy) and I talked about the Supreme Court’s supremacy and lifetime appointments, they took that to mean that the Justices were all, um, immortal or something. Lena and Liberty were momentarily disturbed that these evil justices would be allowed at  Barack Obama’s inauguration. I guess it’s understandable since all of the villains in their favorite stories are immortal. Orochimaru, I’m looking at you. Anyway, once I saw the look of horror on their faces, I cleared that up and they were good to go. Sometimes little tidbits of information that I think go without saying, actually need saying. It’s exhausting.

We watched, I cried repeatedly, they looked at me, I said, “Happy tears! Isn’t it amazing?” And they shrugged. They’re most likely racist.

Just this minute I told them I’m blogging about the fact they got a little thrill at the mention of the Lincoln Bible and Liberty said, “We weren’t thrilled!” and Lena said, “We just pretended!” Then I told them I’m writing about their thinking the Supreme Court was immortal and they both denied it, but when I said, “I saw the look of horror on your faces until I cleared it up!” They laughed and blushed. If I were a good mother, I would edit the post so as  not to embarrass them, but I think it’s more embarrassing for me so I’m leaving it in.