At breakfast, there were hard negotiations.  Luc, 5, looks at me, shrewd blue eyes pretending loving innocence, and says, “Mommy, I’ll give you a kiss if you give me a cookie.  Ginger snaps.  One kiss per snap.”  It’s an offer I can’t refuse.

Later, mid-morning, I find him dancing in the bathhouse wearing one black [...]

I’m having a string of funny kid posts at the moment.  Enjoy, because next is probably a string of depressed writer posts, or how-to farm posts, and they are not nearly as amusing.  Of course, if I’m doing the farming, it can get pretty ridiculous pretty quickly.  But that’s another story.

Anyway, Luc, who recently [...]

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It’s morning, we’re first waking up, and Luc looks up at me with a gasp.  “Mom!” he says in this sweet, surprised voice.  “I just remembered my dream!”

I am instantly intrigued.  “What was it?”

“Chicken butt!”  Peels of giggles.

What?  You don’t know about Chicken Butt?  It’s a kid joke.  Basically, you say, [...]