It's good to have options

I love that my children have wishlists that are very long. Why not? Why do so many limit to just 10 things or less? Options are good! Mine star their very favorite items. The other fabulous thing about my children is that they are so grateful for whatever they get regardless of what it is, how big it is, how expensive it is, etc.
Below are their most recent wishlists, unedited.

HARRISON
Chocolate
Wii, Playstation 2, computer, or gamecube games
Fiction Books (Adventure)
*Nice Winter coat
Reading light
PJs
Baseball mitt
Baseball
A scooter
Baseball mitt
Hat (cap)
A psp
Xbox
New Shoes
Mad Libs
Big House (toy house)
A Movie
lego set.
Goal! Dvd
Camp Rock DVD
Shaolin Soccer DVD
Elvis #1 hits
Order of the phoenix DVD
*Button up shirts
Mario Party 8
clone trooper voice changer helmet $29.96
Iron man DVD $19.96
*Nerf Vulcan EBR-25 $35.00
*Nerf longshot CS-6 29.97
Nerf Maverick $8.88
Havoc helicopter $25.00
Havos stinger $25.00
*Flyteck Bladstar 34.97

ZOEY
Mad libs
*Dove chocolate
a pet fish
Barbie house
Bing bag chair.
Hanna christmas doll
Barbie the dimand castle movie
Barbie christmas carol movie
puppy club doll
fur real frind Biscut
cup cake maker
Bolt wii game
*D-rex
I-dog dance
*Bike
apples to appls
roodof the red nosed raindeer DVD
the grinch dvd
Dora Holiday doll
light up pjs
step 2 kitchen
*Kota
littlet pet shop vips
miely sires CD
camp rock
wii puppy luv
jewelry
epets
christmas strawberry shortcake DVDs
hat - cool cap
shirt - camp rock, hannah montana, jonas brothers, pretty
pants - black, butterfly designs, cool
books
calendar

Hound Dog

So, while other kids chose Brigham Young, Orville Wright, and other such important, yet boring, people to do their 3 month project on, my son, ever the entertainer chose, Elvis.

Politics

Harrison voted at school the other day. He voted for McCain! How have I failed him as a mother? Seriously, though...when I asked him why he voted for McCain he told me because in their Jr. Scholastic he only had time to read the John McCain article and not the Barack Obama article. He then decided he should vote for the one he'd read about.

I'm getting him some reading material right now...

On another note, I had a hard lesson this week in racism in my community. My daughter came home and shared the comments that some of the older girls at school were making about Obama. Comments that these girls had overheard their parents saying. Comments that saddened me, that in the year 2008 people continue to say harmful things about someone for nothing other than the color of their skin.
It lead to quite a discussion between Zoey and myself.