Conversations that happened yesterday…
(Proving that thank goodness I work fulltime so I don’t spend too much time talking to my kids…)
[On the way to lunch]
13-year-old: My friend is jealous. He thinks we have the coolest license plate ever! [Be rest assured: It is dorky.]
8-year-old: Oh, mom, we should keep this car forever so we can keep our license plate.
13-year-old: Dummy. We can keep our license plate even when we have a new car.
Me: Actually they have made the rule so that people can pass down their license plates to their kids.
8-year-old: You mean when you die, we can have the license plate?! Cool!
Me (failing to be concerned by his excitement): Actually you two will probably fight over it. We need to get another cool license plate.
[A lengthy discussion ensued regarding what other cool (and equally dorky) license plate we could get]
[At the restaurant]
Me: Ugh. I forgot my ring… Speaking of my ring. I need to update my will. Now that I have lost both my engagement ring and my wedding ring, I no longer have anything to pass down to you.
13-year-old: Nice job, mom!
8-year-old: You mean you have written down what we are getting when you die? When you die, do we get everything?
Me: Technically, no. When a person dies, and if they’re married, their spouse would get everything. That’s how most people set up their wills. Oh, remember that Mr. Monk episode? (Yeah, we are polite to fictional TV characters) Remember the guy had to pretend that his father died after his stepmother? They both already had kids when they got married. The husband left his son everything; the wife left his daughters everything. The man actually died before his wife, so the son would have lost everything. That’s why he went through the trouble to make sure that people think his stepmother died after before his dad.
[Pause while the boys digested the twisted plot line]
8-year-old: Can you do me a favor? Can you and dad never get a divorce so this thing won’t get so complicated?
He’s always thinking, that one:-). I have one concern, also. Who gets your blog, Lyn?
Oh man. I am not sure I want my kids to read my blog… Now I need to really think about it.
i fear what will happen when my parents go…my siblings can be…demanding. especially my sister and aside from my grandmother’s ring and a picture i want over my parents’ fireplace i have zero interest in any of their other stuff.
good thing i have only one child. and a dmv-issued license plate. 🙂
Well, you know, that’s what your siblings are going to fight over then.
OMG–you’re awful, Lin!
Kathy
What? *blink innocently*
Mine have been asking what they’ll get when I die for as long as I remember. And since I’m not married, I can honestly say, “Everything.”
that is as good a reason as any! and i’m with andrea, what does the license plate say?
Come to Chicago and when I pick you up at the airport, you can see for yourself. 😉
Ha Ha Ha HA : )
So funny. Love your kids!
Mr. Monk is one of a kind. 🙂
Mine are already fighting over which kid will get our house when we parents die. It makes me want to go into a lengthy explanation about the recession and the housing market, just to mess them up.
And now I’m really curious about what that license plate says. 😉
I’m pretty sure it says “I MET LBRNR” with the sticker “and Elly didn’t” underneath. pblttt.
No. It says “NPH FTW”.
Just kidding. Would be awesome though!
There is no heirloom for me to pass down to the kids. They may fight over the Lennox set of Manger scene though. Ha.