Bedtime conversations

Mom: Did you have a bad dream?
Lily: Yeah.
Mom: Do you remember what happened?
Lily: There was a skeleton in Dad's closet.
Mom: He's got lots of those. Did you see it?
Lily: No. I just saw the doorknob wiggling and I yelled at Jacob to run upstairs because then it couldn't get us.
Mom: That is a scary dream. Are you still scared?
Lily: No.
        I don't like skeletons.
        I only like the skeleton in my body.

Mom: You sure were a big help today with all the little kids.

Emma: Yes. Little kids just really like me, I don't know why.

Mom: It's because you are so nice and always think of great things to do.

Emma: I guess so.

Mom: You are going to be a great mom with those kinds of talents.

Emma: I think so.

Jacob: I like Ethan.

Mom: What do you like about Ethan?

Jacob: He's nice. He wrestles with me and plays with me.

Mom: He really likes playing with you. He sure loves you.

Jacob: Yeah.

Ethan: ...General Sullivan carried out George Washington's orders to destroy a lot Iroquois villages in New York because they had been raiding the settlements. The French arrived a year later, General Rochambeau was in charge and they came to Rhode Island. The French also gave the Continental Army $20,000 in gold. Gold! The French defeated the British in a naval battle and that's what trapped General Cornwallis in. He had no where to go and that's ...

Mom: Zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Cherish these days.