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

'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)

'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.'

“No it's not. It's a big hot!” At 2 years old. After being warned that the car seat was a little hot.

When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.