Inspiri-ng my ass: I'm too tired!

My house is a wreck. Kam is in a building mood and has been at it for a few days now, while the unfinished work lies on the floors around our feet. It's like a game of American Gladiator just to see who can reach the kitchen from the family room in under 2 minutes. Noah is at school for the final Monday of 2nd grade. He is really excited about trying to get student of the year. I am concerned this isn't happening for him, but he seems so certain that he has a good chance of being selected by his peers and teacher that he cant imagine a scenario where he isn't awarded with this honor. I find myself holding my breath and making tiny bargains with God. Not that I believe God can be swayed, or cajoled but ya never know......it cant hurt to offer a little prayer ( bribe) up to heaven to help Noah's chances. After all I have to let him fail(or not) - but that doesn't mean I don't want to throw a mattress underneath to catch his fall so it hurts less. Yesterday I found Noah on the landing to the steps and he was staring at the ceiling with a troubled look so I sat down and asked him what he was thinking about. He didn't look me in the eyes as he told me that Time for Kids magazine said that Antarctica was melting and in 10 years it will have melted to such a degree that Noah feared for all humanity because we would be swept away in the flood it created. These are his words, and his worries and I find myself confused and confounded by the depth of his concern. I tried to reassure him that this was speculation and that if indeed the article said the melting of Antarctica would cause flooding in the world that "all of humanity" isn't in danger of being wiped out. He said," No mom, I have a bad feeling that this will happen". So the best I could do was assure him that his dad and I would protect him and that we had to look on the bright side of things: we have 10 years to solve this problem and that scientists and children like him could come up with a solution to global warming or whatever is causing this to happen and help our environment. He felt better and finally I got him laughing and forgetting his worries - for a while anyway. Sometimes I think Noah is a 70 year old man trapped in a 7 year olds body.