Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 12:52PM 
While touring Washington D.C. last week:
Me: Hey, there's Ford's Theater. Meika, you studied this in school recently, do you know what happened at Ford's Theater?
Meika: I don't remember.
Me: Where was President Lincoln shot?
Meika: In the back of the head.
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Saturday, June 8, 2013 at 11:20AM Child comes to me crying -
Me: What happened?
Meika: I pinched my finger in the door!
Me: Let me see... hmmm. I see that it is a litte red, but you aren't bleeding.
Meika: BUT IT HURRRRTS!!
Me: Ah, well, then I guess there is only one thing to do... we will have to cut it off.
Hysterical (exceptionally loud) screaming ensues. Apparently, that kind of humor is not appropriate with this particular six year old, in that particular situation.
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Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 8:05PM Rain drenched vines of rose, honeysuckle and jasmine
Wisteria purple, heavy and laden with its glistening perfume
Coming home tonight, my humble backyard smells of Eden
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 7:25PM Meika, age 6
"Mama, here is a song I made up about our family today." Proceeds to sing..
"Our family is greattttt.
We have just one Mommmm.
She is greattttttt.
We like to laugh and have funnnnn.
Sometimes we lie.
And don't flush the toilet.
Sometimes our Mom gets mad and yellssssss.
Our family is so greattttttttttt!"
Yup. My children are so special.
Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 9:40AM 
Last night I download two alarm apps for my new Galaxy S3 phone. So in addition to the default alarm, which plays a ringtone, I now had one that recorded the voices of my two children shouting for me to get out of bed. This one also had a “personalization” text box, so I keyed in “Kids” since I had just recorded my kids, but it turns out that it is really an automated voice that says “Kids, it is time to wake up!”, at the appointed time. I also downloaded one that has a little cartoon sheep screaming like a baby until you ‘feed’ it at least two bales of cartoon hay. This last one was the one that I set to go off this morning. HOWEVER, in doing that, I somehow set them ALL to go off this morning. At. The. Same. Mind-numbing. Hour. So that, in the dark, cold, wee hours of this morning I had a phone that simultaneously started screaming at me in the voices of my two kids and an automaton’s creepy voice, to get my butt out of bed, while at the same time a sheep bleated at me to feed it cartoon bales of hay. Additionally, a music box tune backed it all up (default alarm) while I fumbled - stunned and confused - for the phone in my purse and tried to figure out how to shut it all down. Sweet horribly startled Moses in tap shoes! It did wake me up, no doubt about that.
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