I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

“I wasn't yawning, I was just letting some fresh air into my mouth.” (After being accused of being tired.)

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'

'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'