No School "snow days"

I am trying to take weekends off from blogging...
sorry for taking so long. Abby went to bed tonight asking, "Can we please have tomorrow off if it's icey...my other school will probably be off." Sucks to be a homeschooler, huh! Anyway- I think that I am starting to get the hang of things.
I had an interesting discussion on Thursday. We were finishing up from the week...actually didn't have much to do that day, and I decided to do a craft that I found in a book on Black History Month about black inventors. Abby and Ellie were both involved and Abby looked up at me and said, "Mommy, sometimes when I am around people with different skin colors I...." she paused...."I..."
"Do you need help with your words?" I asked.
"Yes." she nodded.
"Do you get scared?"
"Yes." she said.
"Do you feel uncomfortable?" I asked.
By this point her eyes were really watering. "Yes".
I asked her, "Are you scared of Zoe?" I asked. (That is her little sister who is black.)
"No." she said.
"Are you scared of Lucy Grace?" (That's her little sister who is mixed.)
"No". she replied still weepy.
"What about Daddy? His skin looks a little different from yours." (He is American Indian)
"No."
Then she said, "I'm only scared of those people who are Martin Luther King's size who were at that march".
Then it hit me....She doesn't understand "time". I mean, when I say, "This happened in 1968." I might as well be saying, "15 minutes ago or last year."
I am such a MORON!!! She was too young to watch that march on YouTube that I was so happy that she viewed. Maybe that's why they don't show this, in school, to 1st graders. Who knew? I explained to her that that happened when Grams was "little". She gets that. Then I told her that, "When we go to an event for MLK Day or we celebrate it...it will involve a cake and happiness." Then, she was fine.
What have I learned? That Abby is very sensetive. That she knows the difference between fact and fiction. As you know, there was no violent outbreak that was filmed during Dr. King's speech at The Lincoln Memorial...She felt what she viewed, The "wieghtiness" of the event. She is insightful. And she is honest.
How did I wrap up the discussion? I told her that what she felt probably stemmed from "her not being around people with other skin colors very often." That "I think that we need to work on making friends who look different than us because they are our 'equals'." I also told her that we were going to probably join the Boy's and Girls Club in the next couple of weeks." They have an after school photography class for 8 year olds and up...it's a small number of kids, about 8 in a class.
What shocked me the most? I would have NEVER in one million years believed that she was "scared & uncomfortable" around people with other skin colors. If you would have asked me, I would have said, "Absolutely Not!!"

I was wrong.

Over all: very valuable day.