06/14/2026
Each week with the little redhead is filled with…… well…. Adventures! And learning for all of us.
This little guy is constantly firing off questions like a pinball machine—bouncing from one thought to the next. He asks questions, then has questions about our answers!
Every evening, as I head into the kitchen to start dinner, he somehow appears right beside me like a popcorn popper popping off question after question. “What are you cooking” “I don’t like that” “can I have a peanut butter & jelly sandwich” “ Mawmaw, instead of vegetables wouldn’t you like to have some Mac-n-cheese instead?” “Why do people even eat green beans, they look like green worms” (appetizing, right? NOT!)
Most nights I end up telling him to go! Get out of my kitchen little boy! lol 😆 of course unless Pawpaw is home, he’s right back at my side within a few minutes continuing the inquisition!
Tonight’s question stopped me mid-step.
“Mawmaw, do all the other houses’ fire alarms go off when their Mawmaws are cooking dinner too?”
I wanted to laugh—but I also couldn’t argue with the logic. In our home, caring for foster children means smoke detectors aren’t optional. They’re basically part of the décor. You can’t walk ten feet without meeting one in any direction, we have a LOT of fire alarms.
Earlier this week, he was determined to deal with a loose tooth he had been wiggling into submission. After a dental check-up (no cavities, thankfully), the dentist jokingly suggested tying a string to his Nerf gun, the other end to his tooth, and letting him “be his own dentist.”
He took that idea very seriously. And now—mission accomplished—he’s missing that tooth and very proud of it. What was even better (sarcasm) was that night he wouldn’t go to sleep waiting on the tooth fairy. I was so desperate to sleep at 3:45am that I snuck $5 under the pillow and took the tooth! It was a long day that followed!
One thing I’ve learned about children is this: they are always watching, always listening, and always keeping score of the little details. Their questions can make you think, make you laugh, or both at the same time.
And sometimes… they remind you that the world really does sound different when you’re hearing it through a smoke detector.
