Somewhere along the line, I have failed as a parent.

I just showed a clip of "Under the Sea from Little Mermaid to my children. Who doesn't love Little Mermaid?

Me (afterwards): "What did you think?"
Charlotte: ". . ."
Elise: "That was a scary one."
Me: 🙁
Charlotte: "Can we watch 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?' now?"
Me: "No ( Read more... )

". . . red maple, black maple, striped maple, dwarf maple, silver maple -- nine different kinds besides sugar maple. Canada is the Land of the Maple Leaf. The maple leaf and the beaver are in her national emblem . . . . Probably the silver fox or the mink that ( Read more... )

"I won! I won! I knew I would win! How did I win?" -- Charlotte, skipping around the house giving everyone high fives.

James and I have been playing a lot of the card game Dominion recently (https://www.amazon.com/Rio.../dp/B01LYLIS2U/ref=sr_1_1). Charlotte, wandering out of her bedroom one evening to see her parents savagely competing over land, ( Read more... )