Bingoed.
Well, the family reunion went well. Funny how these people have ceased to drive me crazy in my old age. A surprisingly good reunion with my cousin after five or so years, we hadn't spent any serious time together since we were kids, really. She'd been doing some whitewater kayaking as well. Whoa.
There were SIX kids there, all between 7ish & 3ish. Four belonged to my cousins, and the other two were my uncle's twins. Mike & I watched the chaos and shook our heads thankfully.
I got a little overwhelmed and walked down to the beach with my uncle and the twins, leaving Mike entertaining the rest of the crowd. The twins were handed a fishing pole by one of the locals and helped reel in a monster chum salmon.
After dinner we got bingoed by a 5-year-old girl.
A FIVE YEAR OLD? Under the impression she had to have kids?! Ack! My Aunts had egged her on, all three of them got the earful from Mike & I they deserved while motioning for us to shut up. It went something like this:
Roz(the 5-year-old): : You have to have kids!
Sarah: Why would we want kids?
Mike: WE can go anywhere and do anything we want any time we want!
R: Mom can take us wherever they want! Except where there's pirates.
M: WE can go where there's pirates!
R: You'd get shot!
M: And we can get shot if we want, and no one will call us irresponsible for taking kids into danger!
R: I set the table!
S: But how long have you been setting the table? You parents had to change your diapers for THREE YEARS! If I don't have kids I never have to deal with raw sewage! You should see a kid born before you have one, its not pretty.
The Aunts were having a silent conniption. Mary(who despite being an instigator is also childfree) took the girl on her lap and said "You can do whatever you want."
"I can have kids if I WANT!" Says Roz, crossing her arms & glaring at us.
S: There's too many people in the world, you should take care of the ones that are here.
Mike leaned in conspiritorally toward the girl, his blue eyes barely visible under his narrowed squint "But you don't HAVE to have kids, either."
"But you still have to get married!" She yelled.
Mike Won QotW with his response:
"I don't have to get married, I'm straight!"
The girl pouted, but was climbing on us again within half an hour. The aunts were aghast. Weirdness.
Anyway, 'twas fun warping the children & catching up with the relatives.
The banana bread went over better than I'd anticipated, as I thought it was a bit dry and not as good as my usual stuff, as I hadn't mixed it exactly right and used spelt flour for the sake of my uncle, who's wheat allergies are too often ignored at family gatherings. Though I think the dryness was more the fault of the former.
There were SIX kids there, all between 7ish & 3ish. Four belonged to my cousins, and the other two were my uncle's twins. Mike & I watched the chaos and shook our heads thankfully.
I got a little overwhelmed and walked down to the beach with my uncle and the twins, leaving Mike entertaining the rest of the crowd. The twins were handed a fishing pole by one of the locals and helped reel in a monster chum salmon.
After dinner we got bingoed by a 5-year-old girl.
A FIVE YEAR OLD? Under the impression she had to have kids?! Ack! My Aunts had egged her on, all three of them got the earful from Mike & I they deserved while motioning for us to shut up. It went something like this:
Roz(the 5-year-old): : You have to have kids!
Sarah: Why would we want kids?
Mike: WE can go anywhere and do anything we want any time we want!
R: Mom can take us wherever they want! Except where there's pirates.
M: WE can go where there's pirates!
R: You'd get shot!
M: And we can get shot if we want, and no one will call us irresponsible for taking kids into danger!
R: I set the table!
S: But how long have you been setting the table? You parents had to change your diapers for THREE YEARS! If I don't have kids I never have to deal with raw sewage! You should see a kid born before you have one, its not pretty.
The Aunts were having a silent conniption. Mary(who despite being an instigator is also childfree) took the girl on her lap and said "You can do whatever you want."
"I can have kids if I WANT!" Says Roz, crossing her arms & glaring at us.
S: There's too many people in the world, you should take care of the ones that are here.
Mike leaned in conspiritorally toward the girl, his blue eyes barely visible under his narrowed squint "But you don't HAVE to have kids, either."
"But you still have to get married!" She yelled.
Mike Won QotW with his response:
"I don't have to get married, I'm straight!"
The girl pouted, but was climbing on us again within half an hour. The aunts were aghast. Weirdness.
Anyway, 'twas fun warping the children & catching up with the relatives.
The banana bread went over better than I'd anticipated, as I thought it was a bit dry and not as good as my usual stuff, as I hadn't mixed it exactly right and used spelt flour for the sake of my uncle, who's wheat allergies are too often ignored at family gatherings. Though I think the dryness was more the fault of the former.