Family sayings

I think every family has some little sayings that are unique to them.

For our family, a few come to mind. "Eat place" is what Reed called restaurants when he was probably 3 years old. That one's kind of stuck.

My mis-speaking during a game of Clue got us "lead poop" instead of "lead pipe" as a weapon of choice for would-be murderers.

Last year, Reed was asked to take care of his friend Robbie's pet gecko while the family was on vacation. The first sentence into a full-page description of his care was "Geckos are a fairly low-maintenance pet" - um, not really, when you've got to leave out meal worms in a certain spot, put damp paper towels out, and I can't even remember the other very specific instructions!

And then there's the family favorite "But there's no post on Sundays," which Amy will never live down. In November 2012, we were ordering her a Pokemon game she'd been saving up for, and Amazon said it'd be delivered that Sunday. Without missing a beat, Amy aid "But there's no post on Sundays" - it was so quaint and adorable (she was deep in a Harry Potter phase at that point) that we all laughed and she got really mad! And she continued to get mad any time it got mentioned after that...but we didn't really mean to upset her, of course, it was just such an unusual thing to say! She doesn't really get too mad any more if we say it, but we have to be judicious.