I'm sweeping the dinning room floor. Aaron suddenly materializes close by, but instead of running through as usual, stops and looks at my work in progress with a bit of thoughtfulness and confusion. I am pulled from my thoughts as I notice him, and give him a curious glance. Sometimes I can see a glimpse of the future person my siblings might become, and it intrigues me to no end.
"Where do the crumbs come from?" Aaron suddenly asks as he examines my pile. The "crumbs", as it happened, was actually dirt that had been drug into the house.
Thankfully he was asking a question to which I have a ready answer. "Well, some of them come from outside, when someone walks in the house with shoes on. They fall off the shoes and get on the floor."
He frowns, and watches for a moment longer as I continue to sweep. I can tell he is thinking about it in great length.
Finally he asks, as if it were the simplest solution in the world, "Then why don't they just take off their shoes at the door and the crumbs won't come?"
Five sarcastic replies pop into my head at once, one of them being, You finally get it! After all those reminders!
I giggle inwardly, but I don't say any of them. Instead I nicely explain that sometimes, he and others forget to take off their shoes. He realizes this and nods understandingly, like the little man he is, and then runs off.
I melt into giggles, both at his four-year-old smartness, and at my sarcastic thoughts.
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I love to teach, and I've so grateful that God has given all of us the ability to teach. Helping others learn about Him and the super complex world He's given us is one of the best things we can do. I can't wait to do it as a mother :)
(And one thing I've learned is that you really don't realize how complex a thing is until you try to teach it, lol.)
~Lindsey
