'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

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

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

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

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.