Cute Comments

A few cute comments my children made since arriving in Ireland.....

When we were getting off the plane in Dublin, Ireland:

Maggie:  "Mama, I'll know who the Irish are because they all have red hair and blue eyes." 
She was as serious as can be when she said that.  As we walked down the airport corridor, I was thinking how cute that statement was when I saw poster after poster of people with those very characteristics.  It made me wonder.  Then, the first person (immigration officer) we saw actually had red hair....but brown eyes. ;).  Since then, she's learned it's not true, though.

Then, as we are looking for the customs area, we were confronted with a very gentle looking man who was just casually walking around.  I asked him where customs was, as Wolf had to go retrieve a lost luggage elsewhere, and I was alone with the children at that time.  He said this was it.  It was just a big open area with a friendly guy smiling at us.  I asked him if we had to do anything special to get through.   He said, "No, as long as you don't have any meat or dairy products with you."  I assured him we didn't and sailed on through the "gate."  Later, Sebi makes us all laugh when he comments on the customs officer: "His job was to see if we were ruthless milk bringer-inners with a mischievous glint in our eyes.  He probably saw we were harmless and let us through."

Beth, commenting on the very narrow paved roads in Ireland, that were used for 2 lane traffic:
"These are just like dirt roads, but they're paved."

Beth (age 15), questioning me, while doing schoolwork:
"Mama, when did rascism officially end?" ...... so sweet! 

Somehow we got talking with the children about skin color.  Ezra was/is from Ethiopia and has darker skin (so does Beth and Nehemiah).  Anyway, I think children in church would stare at him, or 'something' happened that made me ask them if it's hard to have dark skin when everyone around them seems to have lighter skin.  Ezra says, "It doesn't bother me at all, they're the ones that have to look at me."  We all laughed!