February 25, 2007 @ 9:24 pm | Filed under: Family

"What’re you doing, Nana?"

Carter and Kendall spent this weekend with us and, as always, they left me with a lot of great blogging fodder.

This particular moment Carter had walked into my office where I was taking a Government quiz online.

"I’m doing my homework, buddy."

"Huh?" He wrinkled his nose and came to lean against me as I swiveled around in my chair. "Why do you have homework?"

"’Cause I’m in school, remember?"

"Do you go to B*** (the name of the school where he’ll be attending Kindergarten next year)?"

I try not to laugh. "No, I don’t go there. I’m in college."

His big brown eyes light up and he stares at me with something close to awe. "So you play <gulp> FOOTBALL?"

Okay, I’ll wait while you all finish laughing and pick yourselves up off the floor at the mere thought of "Nana" playing football! You have to remember that with, both, a Pops who went to college on a football scholarship and a dad who played football all the way through school, Carter has heard all the stories about the good ‘ol glory days of college. It’s too bad that he’ll have to one day realize that college includes a tiny bit of schoolwork too!

But, hey, I’m all for letting him keep his innocence for a few more years! In the meantime, he can go on thinking that his Nana weekly suits up in shoulder pads and helmet as she "tackles" yet another day on campus…

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This is a picture of Kendall after she is dressed and ready for church. Isn’t she a total cutie?