I never thought I'd Say....

Upon becoming a  mother I have found myself saying things I never thought would need to be said and answering questions I never thought would be asked, for example this morning while my children were brushing their teeth my son asks "Mom, why can't brothers marry their sisters?"....hmmm.  Well that is a real thinker as it is only 6:00 AM and I am barely able to think clearly as it is.  The fine line of too much reality and just plain lies has me caught in quite a predicament as they are both looking to me for an answer.  I quickly come back with a very generic, and hopefully satisfying, "because brothers and sisters getting married to each other is illegal and could cause health problems if there wasn't a law against it".  I realized very quickly I had said too much and should have wrapped it up after just saying it was illegal.  Lord, if these two didn't turn from a 7 & 8 year old child into Law & Order detectives on me!  "What..., what kind of health problems, why would there be health problems and what kind?  Who made it illegal and is it just because of these health problems, and so on and so forth.  It is right about this time I hear their dad standing in the hall trying to contain his laughter & so I did what any good mother would do.  I told them to ask their dad, he would be able to explain it.  Now I am just waiting to get a call from the school, to which I will again reply "Oh you will need to call their dad".  It's times like these I miss saying the things I never thought I'd say that were so much more simple such as: "Get out of the oven...it is not a hiding spot." or "Take my bra off of your neck, you are going to choke!".  Oh the things we learn along the way, every day is something new, somewhat funny, somewhat scary and just plain "Mommy talk".