I haven’t looked at this actual site in a long time. It’s a bit of a mess. I mainly use instagram these days because it’s so easy to capture little moments on the fly – but even those haven’t been updating since Christmas.
But for now, there is a story that is too long to write in my book of Brendan quotes, and too important to forget.
Today I arrived at school to pick Brendan up and he was playing with a boy who is not one of the usual suspects. I didn’t even know this boys name. I later learned that his name is Jeremiah – and that he’s a kindergartner. Brendan happily explained to me that he *just* learned that Jeremiah likes basketball! And really, what else matters.
When I walked up to the basketball court they stopped shooting for a second and Brendan said, “Ohhhh – Hi Mom!”
Jeremiah quickly replied, “See! I told you your mom was here!”
Brendan said, “yeah, but you said my mom was WHITE.”
As he said this, he looked over at me and laughed a little bit as if to say ‘can you believe this kid thought you were white?’
At the same time, Jeremiah looked over at me with a questioning look as if to say, ‘can you believe your son doesn’t think you’re white?’
Brendan said, “Well her TEETH are white.”
To which Jeremiah responded, “Yeah, everyone’s teeth are white.”
And then we moved onto more important things. Namely basketball. And who could do the best Curry layup.
Perhaps it should be noted that Jeremiah has black skin – though I’m not sure it matters in this story.
The usual suspects got released from their class and came out to play – and Brendan made sure his new friend felt included. But gradually Jeremiah went off to do something else. I called over to say goodbye and said that it was nice to meet him.
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Before long he was back.
“What is YOUR name? he said.
I told him my name was Lori. But added that he could always just call me Brendan’s Mom.
He told me it was nice to meet me, and seemed to look extra hard at my teeth as we shook hands.
When we got home, I asked Brendan to fill me in on the story.
Turns out there wasn’t anything that I had missed. It happened just as they said it did.
I asked the next obvious question, “So what color am I?”
Brendan took a good look at me and said, “Pink.”
“and blue, and green, and brown and peach.”
“and a little bit of white.”
He named off the color of my shoes, my pants, my shirt, my jacket. He named the color of my eyes, my hair, my peach skin – he doesn’t think of me as “white” any more than he thinks of Jeremiah as “black”. When he described Jeremiah later he referred to him as “that nice kindie kid who plays basketball”.
Then he added, “I think he thought you were white because you smile a lot.”
And my heart grew an extra size right then and there.