Have you ever had a conversation with your kids and realized their version of what you thought they knew doesn't quite match what you think you taught them?.....  Yeah, that's how confused I was the other day when Josh and I were on our way home from school.

We stopped at Target to do a little Christmas shopping, and Josh wanted to pick his gift for Morgan.  He got Morgan's gift picked out, and then asked that we, "look around a little so I can give you some good ideas for me."  We looked for a few minutes, then headed home.

As we were driving, Josh asked, "Mom,  I've been pretty good this year so Santa should bring me something, right?"  I told him he was a great guy and Santa was surely going to recognize that this year.  Then I decided to take this chance to make the most of a teaching opportunity.  It's in the mom code book, right?

I said, "You know, Santa just looks for us to try our best to be good but we can't be good enough to make up for the wrong things we do.  Isn't it cool Jesus was born on Christmas and died on the cross so we can be cleaned up completely and go to live with Him forever!  All we have to do is ask him to clean our sins away and live in our hearts forever!"  I was feeling pretty proud I had made the most of a teaching opportunity.....Then it was revealed to me how my teaching had fallen apart somewhere along the way....

Josh responded enthusiastically, "Yeah!  That's why Jesus dies on the cross every Easter and comes back to life three days later!"

I paused for a minute to process what I heard and said, "No...Jesus just died and rose again on the first Easter, we just celebrate every year."

Josh got a very puzzled expression on his face and confirmed with me, "You mean He doesn't die and come back to life three days later every year?"

"No," I said, "He only had to do that one time.  It's kind of like when we celebrate your birthday, you aren't born every year on June 25.  We just celebrate every year."

Josh said, "Oh, OK."  But the tone of voice and the expression on his face told me we will probably have this conversation again....It all said, "Sure Mom, whatever you think but I know the truth!"