The girls and I are participating in a mother/child book club of sorts. A woman in our ward is on the Beehive Book Award committee and needs to get reviews of books on the long-list so every year she enlists the help of ward members to read and review a bunch of books. It's a little unconventional as far as book clubs go since we're all reading different books, but it's been fun so far—and it's great incentive to read through a book quickly since we meet every week!
Last week while we were walking over, Rachel started telling us a story about how her friend Kenzie had gotten into a kicking war with a boy during recess. She clarified that they were competing to see who could kick a football the furthest (not that they were kicking each other) and said something about how Kenzie was only "a foot away" from the goal.
"What kind of a foot?" Miriam wanted to know. "Like, my foot size away or..."
"Like a foot-foot," Rachel explained, slightly exasperated. "A metric foot."
"Yeah," I chuckled. "There's no such thing as a metric foot."*
"There's not!?" Rachel gasped.
"No. The metric system is like, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter...ya know?"
"So what system is a foot in?"
"The imperial system."
"And that's different from the metric system?"
"Quite a bit, yeah."
It makes no sense, so yeah...it's quite a bit different from the metric system.
* There is, apparently, so I stand corrected. But it's 4.8 millimeters shorter than an imperial foot. And it's only a nickname so technically there still isn't.
*****
We watched Indian Jones and the Last Crusade with the kids the other night and when they were talking about how the Holy Grail was used to collect Jesus' blood from the cross, Benjamin snorted and said to the television, "Jesus' blood is made of water, duh!"
It's like transubstantiation...only backwards.
Apparently we need to review both systems of measurement and the sacrament.
Last week while we were walking over, Rachel started telling us a story about how her friend Kenzie had gotten into a kicking war with a boy during recess. She clarified that they were competing to see who could kick a football the furthest (not that they were kicking each other) and said something about how Kenzie was only "a foot away" from the goal.
"What kind of a foot?" Miriam wanted to know. "Like, my foot size away or..."
"Like a foot-foot," Rachel explained, slightly exasperated. "A metric foot."
"Yeah," I chuckled. "There's no such thing as a metric foot."*
"There's not!?" Rachel gasped.
"No. The metric system is like, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter...ya know?"
"So what system is a foot in?"
"The imperial system."
"And that's different from the metric system?"
"Quite a bit, yeah."
It makes no sense, so yeah...it's quite a bit different from the metric system.
* There is, apparently, so I stand corrected. But it's 4.8 millimeters shorter than an imperial foot. And it's only a nickname so technically there still isn't.
*****
We watched Indian Jones and the Last Crusade with the kids the other night and when they were talking about how the Holy Grail was used to collect Jesus' blood from the cross, Benjamin snorted and said to the television, "Jesus' blood is made of water, duh!"
It's like transubstantiation...only backwards.
Apparently we need to review both systems of measurement and the sacrament.
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