Conversations

This afternoon R asked me if everyone in the world came out of someone else's tummy.  I said yes, then he asked me if anyone came out of God's tummy.  I reminded him that God created Adam and Eve, then He gave Eve a baby and then lots and lots and lots of babies have been born since then.  I said something like, "Someday when you're all grown up you'll have a family of your own and have a baby in your house."  I guess this bothered him a lot...not the baby part, but the indication that he would be living somewhere else.  He instantly got huge tears in his eyes and asked, "I won't live with you forever?  I want to stay here with you even when I'm grown."  Of course I nearly cried, too, and I told him that he could stay here as loooong as he wanted to.  I told him that if he changes his mind, then we'll come to visit him and his family often, but if he doesn't, he's welcome to stay here with us.  :)  (I'll come back and read this when he's a teenager and griping about what unfair parents we are.)