Wonderful Wife: “Look at this summer camp. I went ahead and signed him up. It looks amazing.”
Me: “Wow. That does look amazing. I never got to do camps like that.”
Little Miss Thing, age 7: “Let’s get Daddy a camp. He seems jealous.”
Me: “I’m totally jealous. But let’s make sure we can afford your camps first. How much was that camp exactly?”
WW: “Oh, it can’t be that much.”
(reads website more closely)
WW: (suspicious silence)
Me: “Seriously. How much?”
WW: “I’m not saying.”
Me: …
WW: “Think of the memories they’ll be making.”
Me: “And we can remember when we used to have money.”
Very Vocal Viking 