Family Natters

Tom was telling me the names of Santa’s reindeer.  “Prancer and Dancer, Vixen and Blitzen, Cupid and … Stupid,” he said.

“Do we still have to pay those men money?” Tom asked today as I was tucking him in bed.
“What men?”
“You know… for the lights and the water.”
It took me a few moments to realise he was asking about paying the bills.
How have your kids made you smile today?

In August 1960 dogs Belka and Strelka were sent into space in Sputnik 5 to orbit the Earth.
I was telling Tom about this and how other dogs had been put into rockets and spent into space.
“But why?” he asked.  “They can’t hold the steering wheel.”

Tom and I were reading a book about how meat was cooked years ago using a spit. There was a picture of a woman turning the handle to cook the meat evenly.
“I’ve done that,” I told him.
“Really?” he said, his eyes as big as saucers. “Someone tied you to that stick, and turned you over […]