'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.'

'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)

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

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

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