“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

“If all the people in the world were nice could we just get rid of the word mean?”

'Daddy, there's Victor, only he has more white hairs now.' (about our neighbor 3 doors down who is a regular reader of McClelland Family.com)

'Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.'

'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.'