Heroes
Last night we were playing a family game of Scattergories—one of my all-time favorites. If any of you haven’t played it before, you must! (I know Stephanie and Kim are cringing right now…they are not game players and I’m sure playing Which Witch with me on my 40th birthday was enough to last them for a while…)
For those of you who don’t know the game, allow me to explain. Basically you have a list of categories and after rolling a crazy 15-or-so sided die with different letters on it, you have to come up with a word fitting the category that starts with the letter. For instance if your first category is ‘fruit’ and you roll a ‘B’, you might pick banana. (heck, that’s probably the ONLY fruit you’d pick. ha! pick fruit! I just made a pun…) I think you have about 12 categories or so and you are timed to get the list done. When the timer goes off you all name what you wrote—and if two (or more!) of you have the same word, you cancel each other out and don’t get credit for it. It’s a pretty simple context and really quite fun!
Sullivan likes to play the game, even though at seven years old it is a bit of a challenge for him. He may not be able to fill in many of the blanks, but not surprisingly, the few words he does manage to come up with are pretty amazing. 
Last night we rolled the letter ‘O’, which of course is always a challenge for everyone. The first category word was ‘Heroes’. I honestly don’t think I could think of any hero that started with the letter O, but when it came to Sullivan he proudly stated “Barack Obama!” Oh, how I love my little democrat!!!! The rest of us cheered.
Sully is pretty opinionated in politics at the ripe age of seven. We were doing some Mad Libs and when it came to naming a celebrity, again—Barack Obama. When the time came in the same story to name yet another celebrity Sullivan put his finger up and said, “I refuse to say John McCain.” hilarious!!! Do ya think we’ve had some influence on the boy?? nah.
I have to share a touching story I read in the news yesterday—or watched on video, I should say. I was going through my beloved CNN site and saw how a woman who had been forced to foreclose on her house attended the auction of it to say goodbye. Needless to say she just sat in the hallway in tears, it was heartbreaking. Another woman at the auction saw her, bid on the house and won it–only to give it right back to the owner. Talk about a random act of kindness–and definitely someone who fits into my hero category. It totally made me cry, I LOVE stories like that—especially in times like these. Nice to know there are still people out there like that. I wonder if her name starts with the letter ‘O’?
