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

“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.

'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)

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.