The Christian that lives in my house

Tonight, after a long first week of kindergarten, the girls decided to have a slumber party, which is to say, they decided to sleep on their floor, everything else was still the same.  And since Annabelle has already brought home three worksheets from her school that is supposed to be for gifted and talented kids, I decided that I will have to supplement the things that are gifted about Annabelle at home.  Since Annabelle was really into the Romans and Egyptians earlier this summer, I decided to read this history book to her that was mentioned in the Well Trained Mind and also recommended by my sister in law.  In it is a story about two Egyptian gods, brothers, where one killed the other.  We read it along with some Berenstein Bears and a Dora book before bed. The slumber party ended with Tallulah's customary wiggling until she abruptly stops and is asleep. But Annabelle's little well trained mind couldn't let the myth go, and was scared and she is now in our bed, fast asleep.

Before she went to sleep, she was telling me that the story scared her.  And it prompted this discussion:

Me:  "well, Annabelle, you know that is not true."

A:  "Why?"

Me:  "well, you heard them talk about gods, and you know there is only one God and that is our God.  You see, he came down, from heaven and made himself known to Abraham, and because Abraham was a good man, he promised him that his people, his descendants, would be as numerous as the stars.  And do you know who some of those people are?

A:  "no"

Me:  "you and me, we are.  And then some of his people, called the Jews, ended up in Egypt, and the Pharaoh was mean to them and made the Jews slaves, and that made God angry, so punished the Egyptians, and gave the Jews, Moses, who led them out of Egypt, to Israel."

A:  "wait, I thought he took them to the promised land."

Me:  "He did, and that was Israel, that is where the Jews lived, where Jesus, who was from the house of David, who was a Jew himself, was born.  And Moses gave them the laws, rules to live by.  And eventually there were a lot of laws--tons and tons--like one law is that you can't eat meat with diary.  So no steaks with a glass of milk.  And the dishes you eat milk and cheese on have to be totally different from the dishes you eat meat on.  Can you believe that?  Anyway, there were so many laws, that God noticed that the people were too preoccupied by all these rules and weren't doing the important things, like being nice to each other.  So God sent them Jesus, and he told them that the only things that mattered, the only things that were important, was to love God with your whole heart, and your whole soul and your whole mind and to love your neighbor...

A:  "as yourself.  So he took all their laws and smushed them into two."

Me:  "yes."

A:  "just like a hamburger."

Me:  "yes, exactly like a hamburger."

During this discussion, H was watching a Kung fu movie on the ipad.  That's what he was doing while I was first putting the girls to bed, but was interrupted when some strangers knocked on our door.  Two kids in their 20s, see how I can say kids?  That's what you do when you are pushing 40, you call people in their early 20s kids.  They were on a pub crawl/bike ride when they got a flat tire.  He invited them into the garage and tried to air it up, but when that didn't work, he loaded up their bikes in our van and drove them home.  Home was an rv park off of shepherd and tidwell, which is not a nice part of town.  It was dark and he didn't want them to walk all that way, through that part of town.