The Killing of the Juice

      I have learned that I need to work on my enunciation. We read the Bible and a variety of non-Biblical literature. When the boys have a question they raise their little hands just as they learned to do in school however when I have my nose in a book I don’t normally see the little digits waving to me with a confused little boy at the end of that arm. I was asked why anyone wanted to kill ’juice’ and that you really can’t kill ’juice’ because it isn’t alive and that this story really doesn’t make any sense at all. As always, it takes me just a second or two to come up with  what on earth is being asked and when did I say anything about juice? Jews. Juice. I get it. I explained that I was really saying Jews because they are a group of people mentioned in the Bible. Then I am asked why they, the Jews, wanted to kill juice. No, we need to back up a little. The Jews, I explain, were God’s chosen people, that juice had nothing to do with the story and that I had said the word ’Jews’ and it sounded like ’juice’. Both twins look at me as though disappointed that there was really no juice in the story and that that was a huge letdown.