We have gone through a period with our kids where each day they have some pithy comment worth repeating.  At least to one another.  Alban’s now famous quote, “I love you too much I don’t know what to do about it.” has inspired hundreds of folks on facebook.  Listening to our children I have often wondered if W. ever asked Bab’s early in the morning, “What do you call it when flowers get water?  Capillary Action!”  And I smile and think, “certainly not,” but I know another young mother who may have heard such words out of the mouth of her precocious child.

Today as I read the news it hit home once again.  It makes me smile to know that for at least the next four years I get to hear things like this from my President,  “We must build this recovery on a foundation that lasts — on a 21st century infrastructure and a green economy with lower health-care costs that creates millions of new jobs and new industries; on schools that prepare our children to compete and thrive; on businesses that are free to invest in the next big idea or breakthrough discovery.”   Instead of things like this, “I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure,” or perhaps even this, “It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas. “   And I am ever more thankful that at this time our President was never heard saying this, “The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should.  I’ve got Greenspan’s book.”  Thank god that man is back to his seat in the Senate.

And so with quotes swirling around in my head sometimes late at night I wonder what quotes will my children leave behind?  Will Alban, who when asked “Do you think we can come up with a way for you to have fun in school without ending up in the principal’s office?” answers, “No.  That’s their problem.” leave behind quotes like this, “I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.”  Or if he will leave behind quotes like this, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.  We are the change we seek.”

Since Alban’s new life plan is to become a scientist who makes great discoveries in space thus prompting the Queen or King of England to Knight him Sir Alban Edward Wellstone Pitz, Knight of the World, I am certain his quotes will be worth reading.  And for that I have promised him a real sword and chain mail.  When he becomes a Knight, of course.