Spooky frogs and Presidential elections

Yesterday on our drive to school, Robert moved me to tears by quoting Dr. King's Letter from a  Birmingham Jail.  Urged on to social justice and feeling a wee bit proud of myself (social worker/mommy I got that s*** on lock)..I voted my conscience and then went to take communion to bring a sense of balance to my otherwise crazy world.

 This morning I was disheartened by the crazies on Facebook and just in general (why I don't know) and so I turned to my little 9 year old sage to get a good FB post and shut up all the crazies for his perspective.  After all, I am a social worker trained to make people talk about their feelings, right? And I have clearly raised a deep thinker.  So here are Robert's thoughts on the election, unedited. Prepare to be dazzled:

"why are you asking me so many questions?  Did you know that in Alaska it can be like negative 30 degrees and they still have to go to school?  Can I finish my rubber band ball? Hey Ethan, I am a spooky frog "BLEHHHH".

Still hoping for a gem I turned to the "speech" he had to write last night for his homework assignment.

"Being President is a lot of responsibility.  I can not be vain.  I hope I am a howling success."  Turns out those are his spelling words and he had to use as many of them as he could, there are 20 he used three. And one of them is howling..

My children never fail to give me perspective and burst my little bubble of pride.