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Wasn't that the title of a TV show? I know it was; just checking to see if I'm the only one that's heard of it.

You have to know that my sisters and I have the strangest children on the planet. Mine asked me to find her a man when she was five years old. Yep. Wanted to be sure she had someone to live with her when she grew up, and wanted me to start looking now. Or then, however you want to look at it.

Earlier this year, I found my little one in the neighbor's driveway with the neighbor's girls, sitting on bed pillows in the gravel, making crayon signs for Ron Paul and waving them at passing cars. Yeah, we train 'em young in this part of the world. I only wish I could say it was my idea; it was actually hers, and done without my permission.

One of my sisters has an extremely political family. She and her hubby both have degrees in political science; he's a state auditor, she was an intern at the state capitol with one of our best local Christian representatives. She homeschools (or satellite schools -- I'm not sure what the term for her program is) and watches FoxNews in the background most of the day (outside of Backyardigans and Wonder Pets, that is -- the kids would never forgive her abandoning such great music shows). So the kids hear and see quite a bit of what's happening in the world of politics.

More than I had guessed apparently. She called my mom the other day with the "daily funny" (something that has become nearly a daily practice with all four of us girls). The three of her older children -- aged 6, 4 and 3 -- were having a political discussion in the living room. (Yes, you heard me right. Only in this family....) The oldest made a comment about Biden. FoxNews was interviewing Obama. The 3yo misunderstood her and had a complete meltdown, believing that his sister couldn't properly identify her political candidates.

Yep. You never know what the little munchkins will come up with next.

My youngest sister now has two little ones, the older one at 4yo is known for an incident when she was 2yo where she asked a complete stranger in WalMart if he suffered from ED. Yeah. She'll never live that one down.

This time around was a bit more reverent. My sis had been hoping for a dining room table, her soon-to-be hubby has never experienced. She found one in pieces in the basement one day (one of those handed-down apartments with plenty of other people's junk in the basement), and discovered that all the chairs in the place were a matched set. She prepped a special meal for her family and the friend that would babysit the kids that night.

They sat down to eat and my niece informed everyone that they needed to say their "praises." My sis, having come out of a JW experience with first hubby still doesn't have any sort of religious beliefs that she can pass on to the little ones, but is willing to let the kids go to church with Grandma and Papa when they're up, who do try to have them pray at meals and bedtime.

My sis agreed to do that, and K began to pray for them. "Thank you for the fish and the vegetables, Mommy. God bless the Lord. Thank you that everyone has food, and that everyone has juice. Amen."

Sis was the one who called; that's the other cool part. What a wonderful blessing that little one was that night. And while all the horrible things in the world try to influence our precious little ones, how wonderful that God created them to mimic the good in life.

We have the coolest kids in my family!