It turns out I am not even human!

Caitlin: You're my mechanical mom.
Me: I am?
C: Yep. I built you with my tools.
M: What happened to your real mom?
C: I don't have one.
M:Why not?
C: She died. My dad too.
M: How did she die?
C: After I was born she died in a car crash. She got really sick and she was in the hospital. My dad joined the army to get medicine and he died in World War II. But they were mean anyway.

Is this too morbid to laugh at? I hope not because I sure am laughing. Mostly it's nice to know that even if I am just the mechanical replacement mom, at least she thinks I am nice!

Comments

Summer Spillane Jordan said…

oh that is so great! we've raised our children with that same warped sense of sci-fi vs reality :) we have things like jedi counsel instead of family counsels and i'm always nick named after whatever "evil" doer is in the most recent movie they've watched :) fun times...they do still love us though i'm sure of it!

October 4, 2011 at 6:55 AM

gwyn said…

So much going on there... Little Orphan Annie, mostly. Maybe you are Daddy Warbucks? :) My long lost Mindy, why have I not called you in so long? We should talk soon!

October 5, 2011 at 11:55 AM

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