'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)

'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.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.