The Innocence of Youth

I know, I know, its been two weeks since I have blogged, but I have plenty of excuses. I have several "blogs in waiting" (i.e. Christmas, New Years, Princess rockin' party, Dude's school play), keep watching in the coming days for those. For now, I have to blog about the innocence of children. This morning when I was checking my email Dude came in the room and saw a picture on Yahoo of the fighting in the Middle East. He asked me about it and this is the conversation we had.
Me: There are some people in different countries that are fighting.
Dude: Why?
Me: Well, there are two groups of people who each think that they should own a piece of land. Kind of like if you and your sister each thought that a toy was yours so you fought about who's toy it is.
Dude: You would tell us to share and find a way to get along. Can we send them a letter and tell them they need to share and get along?
Me: I wish it were that simple. They've been fighting for so long I'm not sure a letter would help.
Dude: Maybe no one has tried. I'll write them a letter.
I wish the rest of the world saw everything in such simple terms. Maybe then we could all remember to share and get along.
Then, later today Dude asked me if he could do the dishes. Um.....Yes!!! He ran to Princess and said, "I can't believe Mom is trusting me to do the dishes! Wow! This is SO awesome!" Yes it is. :)