Pioneers?

James was asking me last night if leprechauns were real.  I told them they weren't real but a fun story someone made up that we get to enjoy.  He followed that one by this question, "How about those people with holes in their shoes, are they real?"  I paused trying to figure out which of our made up world has holes in their shoes.  I came up blank and asked more questions.    He added, "you know, the ones that had funny wagons and walked a lot?"   YES!!!  He's talking about pioneers!  Then I had to laugh. (We did go on the pioneer trek for primary this summer.)  Poor kid, we have so much that is made up - he wondered about pioneers.

His concern was legitimate -he was trying to figure out where the pioneers are then - since we don't see them today.  So this led into a whole discussion about pioneers of today and yesterday.  I think we'll be doing some more research on the subject this year.