Varying Degrees of Interest

Could it be said that I am interested in everything that my children say?  Yes, in varying degrees.  Does that mean that I sit in silent wonder awaiting the next lexical pearl?  Hardly.  I am rarely permitted time to sit and seldom gifted with silence.

Perhaps this is where I stumbled. 

Had I been listening more attentively I may have been privy to the entire conversation unfolding beneath me.  Instead, it stood my hair on end to hear this statement echo up the stairs from where all three boys were playing in the basement,

"No, Justin!  No!  Nothing lights on fire!"

Remember that Justin!!

- 17 November 2011