Yesterday evening, after Gracie was finished with her spelling homework, she flipped to the back of the dictionary, where they have all the past presidents pictured along with their birth/death/and service dates.
"Hmmm," she observed, looking at the most recent presidents, "They don't know when these guys died."
"That's because they are still alive." I said.
"Oh." She continued perusing. "This is Lincoln!" She exclaimed, pointing to his picture. "He saved our state."
"Saved our state?" I repeated, about to make the distinction between state and country.
"Yes, with the silverware." She replied.
I couldn't help it. "Silverware?" I asked, cracking up.
She could tell by my laughter that she didn't have it quite right, so she said, "You know, with the slavery and all. That war - what was it called?"
"The Civil War." I said.
"Yes. The Civil War." She repeated.
I explained the difference between our state and our country, and the lesson was over, but I chuckled about the silverware for awhile.
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