WoMAN

Today on a shopping trip to the grocery store, my oldest looks at me and says, "Mom, I just saw a man wearing a pink shirt, a skirt and high heels." I asked the obvious question, "Are you sure it was a man?" I looked around quickly but only women, women that looked like women. I dropped it quick thinking that perhaps she has confused a rather manly looking women as a man. As we were at the car I spotted the pink shirt, black skirt and high heels, it was definitely a man, long grey hair and long grey beard. Not something I expected to come across and have my kids as me to explain it to them. I still haven't gone there, hopefully this will give me a bit of time to perfect my answer before we meet him again. On that same note, I am finding now that the girls are fluent readers I cringe at the bumpers stickers and other signs on people's cars. The other day, Cici read aloud a VERY rude bumper sticker and asked me what it meant. I dismissed it quickly, she kept asking, so I said that it was very rude and we should NOT use those words. Thankfully she is still in the dark about the meaning but I know many explanations will need to be made. This is the hard part of parenting older kids, explaining God's truth and the fallen world. Wish me luck!