Let's hope it's the only thing he's picked up from Donald Trump!

Today we went out to a corn maze, about an hour from home - had a great time! In the car on the way back, though, things went south between the kids. There was laughing at someone's dancing, there was great offense taken...there was more offense taken at laughing at the offense....it didn't go well. (I'm sorry, but who among us WOULDN'T LAUGH at their child who complained that her brother's arm was too hard, that it hurt her hand when she hit him????)

Anywho, I told both kids to keep on their side of the car (why do I still have to say this??) and Reed motioned between the seats and told Amy "I'm going to build a wall. And I'm going to make you pay for it."

Both parents LOL'd. There was more offense taken. Lather, rinse, repeat. Good times.

A rose by any other name...

Clearly I am no poetry expert. As I mentioned earlier, Amy had a poetry assignment in her sixth grade English class with Ms. Brown. For some reason she was really worked up over it. She can get really fixated on making things perfect, and make herself nearly sick in the process. There was plenty of class time available to work on this project, which if I gather correctly, required each student to do a variety of poems, each with a different value, to reach a certain total. In the end, she finished the project just under the wire (after a few tears), and she got a 100%. I think the poems are pretty awesome.