You can shake it

Traveling with our kids usually ends one of two ways: I either end up laughing so hard I nearly pee pants, or I cry.

Yesterday was Hoover Christmas. Hoover family events require driving an hour and a half each way. After being loved on and sugared up for four hours, this happened on the drive home:


Morley [after seeing a cow move in a pasture]: That cow's head moved! I thought it was a robot cow!

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Sarah, Dan and I were having a conversation about someone who we joke can do no wrong. Jonah heard the tail end of it.

Jonah: Who walked on water?
Me: Jesus
Sarah: He also turned water into wine.
Jonah: You know who else did something with water?
[expectant pause]
Dan: Jack Daniels.

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Riley: People don't have tails.
Jonah: Yes they do. You can't touch it, but you can shake it.

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Aunt Sarah (who often rides with us to family stuff): Do you like what Santa gave you?
Morley: I told Santa I want Hello Kitty Legos and a Hello Kitty penny bank. He did it wrong. [She got Cinderella Squinkies.]

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So....no crying on the drive home yesterday. I'm still laughing about Dan's Jack Daniels comment. I love my family so much and I'm so very very grateful that they make me laugh.

To there and back.

Many times, I've told the kids I love them "all the way to the moon and back." Naturally, because they are kids, and they've learned about planets, they've created variations. I've been loved to every planet and back in our solar system, including the Earth. I've also been loved all the way to the Sun and back. But Morley said a new one today. "I love you to all of the French fries." She loves fries, so I'm pretty sure this is a good thing.