'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)

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'

“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)

“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)