Liam picks up phrases and sticks to them for weeks, months, whatever suits his need. The latest:
Liam: Mom, I’m not letting you off the hook.
Me: (Cringing because the worst of Liam’s phrases are him playing back my own less-than-loving lines from when I am grumpy or annoyed) Not letting me off the hook how Liam?
Liam: [...]

So here’s a fairly recent “Aidan-ism.” In the context of discussing how some kids are really great at some things and some kids aren’t, Aidan explained:
“It is not always the best to be the best. Yeah, because if you are the best all the time, you might not get taught anything.”
I thought it was a [...]

So for a very brief period of time this summer, I was unemployed. Did I start running? Did I dust off my draft of a novel? Did I go through my boxes and boxes of photos?
Nope.
I read the Twilight Saga. Well, read might be too loose of a word. How about swallowed whole in a [...]

What a tremendous Thanksgiving we just had — a house full of amazing people, beautiful food, and lots of laughter. Really couldn’t have asked for more. I mean it.
Lucky. That’s how I feel, because every year at this time I think about James Kim and his family, who took a Thankgiving trek to the Pacific [...]