Fun fact — battery life is exponentially related to the amount of frustration and irritation the toy they power gives to you — that talking dragon that repeats everything you say, only faster and at a higher pitch? Those batteries aren’t ever going to die.

Farm sitting for a friend - today, I learned that while you have to buy hens, people will practically pay you to take a rooster off their hands

My son also told me once that I shouldn’t try to speak Spanish anymore because it was really bad and “I was embarrassing him in front of the Dominicans.”

He’s seven.

According to my son, one of the downsides to living in a dual language household is that when you mess up, you get the same lecture in two languages