When you live with an 8yo

6yo is absolutely obsessed with "is it cake" and will occasionally drop the work "hyperrealistic" into conversation

Is this battletoads? Anyway they are losing their minds and every few minutes 6yo retreats to her weird airbnb bunked nest to cry about not knowing how to double jump

Ranking of northern az sites: Antelope canyon: wow, worth it Lake powell: cool in parts Horseshoe bend: just look at pictures online

I don't really like running but this trail was too western fantasy not to

Babe you gotta pull over

Have discovered that el Pollo loco is finally the family road trip food we can all actually deal with. Huzzah

8yo, throwing her backpack on the ground: it was library day 6yo: did you get any for me? 8yo: one for you, one for me, one shared 6yo: I want the one you got for you 8yo: I need that one right now *takes book into the bathroom*

Just eating cheesy bread and ranch for dinner felt wrong so I chopped up the cheesy bread with some tomatoes and tossed it with the ranch on a bowl of greens and now it's cheesy bread salad

Me: I wanna sing like Stevie nicks Vocal teacher: I think you're a coloratura soprano Me: is that why my "landslide" sounds like shit??? Vocal teacher: *looks at ceiling*