Cassidy and I were watching the Oprah where she has a surprise baby shower for 650 pregnanat army wives… all from the same town!! At one time!*

Anyway, they were profiling some of the wives in the show and being pregnant, of course, they were a tad bit disturbingly emotional and talking about falling in love and such. I’m watching the sappy women when Cassidy looks straight at me and this is what followed:

Cassidy: Mom, I know what gay is.
Me: *chokes on water* Really?
Cassidy: *nods*
Me: *Maybe if I don’t say anything she’ll drop it*
Cassidy: *keeps looking at me*
Me: * Shit. She’s not going to drop it.* What is it?
Cassidy: It’s when a boy loves a boy or a girl loves a girl.
Me: Yes, that’s what it is.
Cassidy: But not the way you love me. It’s like LOVE love. Like if you were a boy and you loved Ben. Or Ben was a girl and he loved you. But you aren’t. You are a girl and Ben is a boy so you aren’t gay.
Me: *Oh God make it stop*
Cassidy: *keeps looking at me*
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…
Cassidy: Can I have some Oreo’s?
Me: Yes. Go get some. *If you stop talking you can have all the cookies you want.*
Cassidy: YAY!! *runs to get cookies*

WTF is going on?! Periods. Sexual orientation. What’s next??? Wait, don’t answer that.

* Warning: If you happen to be visiting Fort Campbell Army Base in Kentucky, do not drink the water.)

When walking from the garage to the house after a long moment of silence in the car because she was stuffing her face with English Muffin Pizza:

Cassidy: Mom… when you grow up you’re gonna be just like me, huh?
Me: Exactly.
Cassidy: I thought so.

I added a new catagory: Conversations with Cassidy. Not that you can search by catagory… because I don’t have them listed anywhere. That will change soon. Anyway, this is a pretty self explanatory catagory. Most of the conversations are between Ben and Cassidy because when the two of them start… it’s just classic.

And here we go!!

Last night in the car on the way home from the grocery store:
Me: *as we pull a ‘Ben’ around a left turn* Oh Lord.
Ben and Cassidy: *chuckle*
Me: We have bread AND 2 litre’s in the back. The bread needs to make it home alive for Cassidy’s lunches.
Ben: She can have Pepsi sandwiches.
Me: *blank stare*
Cassidy: Good one Ben!
Me: OH… LORD!!!