Raven is schooling me...again!

This is a conversation that Raven and I are having while holding hands and walking through the Walmart parking lot in the rain.

R:  Mommy?...... Where do bald eagles live?

M:  Uhhhhh... I don't know... in trees I guess?!?!

R:  No Mommy. You're wrong! They live in Washington D.C.! Ya know... in the United States?!!?

M:  Well excuse ME! If you knew, then why did you even ask me?

R:  Because... I wanted to see if you knew the answer!

Still walking.... in silence....

R:  Mommy, I think that you should stop working and come to school with me everyday.

M:  How come?

R:  Because... I think you forgot everything you learned when you were in school. Everytime I ask you questions, you always say, "I don't know!" ..........Mommy! What do you know?

What I wanted to say to the little heffer was, "I know that if you don't shut your damn trap, I'm going to leave you in the car with all the windows up and the child locks on!"..... Hey! Leaving kids in the car isn't a crime! Is it? And besides... I did say that it was raining! Can't be messing up my leather, so the windows have to stay up!

Anyhow, it's amazing the kinds of questions that children ask and the AMOUNT of questions they have. I know out of the 10,574 she might have asked me so far, I had to at LEAST have answered about 3,487! At least! When I'm overhwlemed... when its 8:30pm and they still haven't bathed or eaten, the easiest reponse to a question like, "How many hours until its spring?"........is..... "Raven. I don't know."