Little Louder

Little Miss Thing, age 5: “Want to hear how loud I can sing?”

My Wonderful Wife: “No. We’re in a hotel room and the people next door might be asleep.”

LMT: “You don’t know – they might be wide awake and like loud singing.”

You couldn’t pay me

Phone call six days prior to tell My Oldest to be sure to bring her swimsuit on our trip so she can swim in the hotel: Check.

Email four days prior to remind her: Check.

Multiple text message reminders: Check.

Shopping for a swimsuit on Black Friday… In Chicago… In the bleeping WINTER when no one stocks swimsuits… PRICELESS.

All piled in a hotel room in Chicago for family thing tomorrow, and tucking in the girls on the fold-out couch.

My Wonderful Wife: “Girls, you are not allowed to wake me up tomorrow morning until it is totally light outside.”

Little Miss Thing, age 5: “What about Daddy?”

Me: “You can wake me up if it gets really bright… As in the Earth is falling into the Sun.”

LMT: “I hope that doesn’t happen tomorrow.”

My Oldest, age 13: “Well, it’s more likely than Daddy waking up on his own.”