Morning Rhyme

 How do you want this day to unfold, my sweet?

How do  you want it to go?

With ease and grace,

And with feeling of love

Running through depth of my core.

Early Morning Question

"What is a prime number?", was the question my older son fired at me in the morning while half-awake I was slowly emerging from the bedroom. "It is a number that can be divided only on one and itself," muttered I without stopping and froze in place. How did I know this? Math never was my strongest subject, plus all that I learnt about it was in Russian, so it wouldn't have spilled out of me so readily in English. My mind kept working on this puzzle for a while and finally I remembered. About four years ago I watched " The Mirror Has Two Faces", a romantic comedy with Barbra Streisand, where two main characters had a discussion about prime numbers. Being intrigued I did a bit of reading on the subject and apparently some of it was retained. The power of media!

The reason for such a strange morning greeting was a game boy game "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?", which my boys and I like to play. It often makes us run for the dictionary, encyclopedia or atlas. And I don't care to admit how many times it does make me feel less smart than a fifth grader.