Can't remember what my kids said today that made me giggle, but it reminded me of an exchange a while ago:
Daniel: (downstairs, says something that sounds like) Justin! It's ALL YOUR FAULT!!
Me: OK, that's it, automatic time-out for you! (All Your Fault is a hot-button phrase here)
Daniel: What?
Me: You said 'It's all your fault', automatic time-out!
Daniel: No I didn't! I said I HATE YOU!!
Me: Oh, that's much better.
***Mostly pretty good day today. The kids are learning to put away their own laundry. It's slow going and right now it results in hilariously overstuffed drawers, but we're getting there.
Daniel is also mastering greetings and polite exchanges (please'n'thank yous) in Spanish. Justin... well, I hope he learns through osmosis, or that being in French Immersion next year helps a bit. Because he's not terribly interested and not terribly good at Spanish.
Daniel, OTOH, is very eager to learn. Also very eager to keep up his French, especially since he won't be in French Immersion next year. It's one of the only worries he expresses about home schooling, actually; that he'll lose his French.
I love him.
***So, I'm reading Half-Blood Prince over again, noticing all sorts of stuff that I didn't the first time through. I must say I prefer reading books the second, third or fiftieth time; without the urgency of What Happens Next, you can see so much more, and so many little details come out. I've only read the previous Harry Potter books twice, but I think I'll go back to HBP a few more times than that.
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