Good Morning

I came into the kitchen this morning as the boys were finishing up breakfast. Michael promptly declared, "I don't think you look quite as old as you really are. I think you look five years younger." This comment seemed to me to be completely out of the blue (but reasonable). However, I imagine that it was not truly out of the blue. I imagine that while I was upstairs getting ready for the day, the boys were eating their breakfast and having a serious discussion about age, what factors can be examined to determine age, what characteristics are affected by age, etc. I would have liked to listen in, unobserved, during that conversation. I think it would have been quite interesting. And perhaps it would have given me some insight into Spencer's next comment that when he looks at how tan my skin is and how clearly my veins show through my skin, he thinks I look exactly as old as I am. "As you get older your skin gets thinner," he explained. "Look at my arm," he said as he showed me his arm. "You can hardly see my veins, but look at yours. I can see them all."