Nest Egg

(me in my "nest")

There is a robin who has busily gone about making himself a nest right outside our back door. Mom and I watched him for ages yesterday morning before school as he worked hard gathering twigs and dried grasses and arranging them just so.

I learned a new word for a concept that I am very familiar with.

Disagreeing.

You see, mom and I had a debate about whether the busy robin is a mommy or a daddy bird. I think the hue of the robin's breast is more orange (meaning it's a mama bird); mom thinks it's a red breast (indicating a papa).

Mom said that we disagree and that's okay. She said we can each have our own ideas about it and we don't have to think the same thing.

We can disagree.

(I agreed).