Some things I'd like to know.

I was reading the paper the other day and there was an ad showing the winners of the spelling bee, who would be going to Washington DC for the national spelling bee. The winner was 12, and already had a mustache going on. That's for starters. I do think everyone should get the basics, but seriously, the time it takes for a kid to even compete in a spelling bee is outrageous, I saw that documentary about it (Spellbound). And whoa, those kids in the national spelling bee were CRAZY. They are going to make their therapists so much money. The real question is, why are all spelling bee winners home-schooled? I don't get it. If I home-schooled my kids (which I never, ever will) I can think of 10 things easily that would be more useful, interesting, and important than spelling. Lest you think this is coming from someone who can't spell and is bitter, I must say that I'm a fantastic speller. Really. And nothing annoys me more than people misspelling their/there/they're and your/you're, but why in the world would you care if your kid can spell erythromycin? That was the winning word, by the way. I bet you don't even know if I spelled that right.

Here's another question. Why, the very moment you say something do your kids do the exact opposite? Like today at church, I whispered to Bryan that it was amazing that Amos had been chewing his gum for about 10 minutes, and right at that very moment, literally I did not even finish my sentence, we both watched as he swallowed that gum. Or earlier that same morning I said to Bryan, isn't it nice to hear the kids playing together? I mean, isn't it just the sweetest sound? The next moment Molly is all AMOS, STOP DOING THAT! at the top of her lungs. We laughed. I tell you, it's a good thing we have a sense of humor.

And please can someone tell me why everything on tv is one hour earlier in the central time zone? It's really been bothering me for years now.