Category: life
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Stalk Photo
So imagine you’re at work while your spouse is keeping track of your children when an unknown number texts you a photo of one of your children without a clear location-identifying background or other people in it and no context.
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Absolutely Nothing
The reference is to a line about a “father’s brother’s nephews’ cousin’s former roommate”. Potentially you are your father’s brother’s nephew (or whatever combination of father/mother, brother/sister, nephew/niece that’s applicable to you, unless both your parents were only children), so you can go ahead and add that on to anything to make it sound more…
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Twin Day
The connections forming all the time in that little brain…wild.
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Watch Your Language
There’s something amusing about kids pointing out a technicality like this while using this insult against a sibling with whom they share the same mother, and in front of said mother. Because there are some arguably larger linguistic/usage concerns I could bring up here.
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Sorry, Bugs
Fun fact: what I call a “potato bug” is actually a “terrestial crustacean” in the family armadillidae – or maybe armadillidiidae. Or you can just call it a pill bug or roly poly.
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Worst Of All
Just in case there is a kid named “Joe” at my local school: it’s a stand-in name that’s nice and short for the speech bubbles, not used because of any relation to that name.
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Curiouser And Curiouser
When this aired in the elementary school assembly it was difficult to hear the mic audio, so I almost missed out on this gem of kid perspective.
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Once You’re Gone
Was not expecting such a burn at this tween age group.
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Halloween Hazard
My spouse, surprised as we’re leaving the house and I’m wearing the hat: “Are you going to drive with the hat on?!” No. It’s just so ungainly that I have to carry it out on my head or I wouldn’t be able to hold anything else.
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Hunger Is The Best Spice
That first later-than-planned meal was consistently voted the most delicious of the whole weekend trip.