Into our family life.
Elijah will often come home and say this same phrase: “I was the only one in my English class today who knew what (fill in the blank) meant.”
Most recently, it was a Napoleon complex.
Before that, it was propaganda.
And if you ask him how he knows about these things, he gets insulted. “I read things!” And he does. Always reading stuff online, looking up information on all kinds of stuff. What’s weird is he retains. Everything.
Nathaniel had what I’ve come to think of as an Elijah-moment the other day. Daniel doesn’t really like peas, so I never make them. Like, ever. But the other day we were having mashed potatoes and I like peas in mine so I made some. Nathaniel was busy so he ate later than us. He went into the kitchen, saw the peas, and asked, “Is there something wrong with the corn?”
I didn’t know what he was talking about. He said, “Why is the corn green?”
Today at church, our stake president spoke. He’s the leader over several congregations in our area. And he always likes to speak in these extended metaphors. Daniel describes his talks like this: “There was a bicycle and a rabbit, and they did some stuff…So don’t be a pancake!”
This morning his talk was all about being goalies (Olympics-inspired). I leaned over to Catherine and said, “So don’t be a mailbox!” just as Daniel leaned over to me and said, “So don’t be a palm tree!”















