Holiday & Winter Cloverisms

- "Emily, you are so messy," I remarked.  "I know; it's my talent," she replied.
- "At school, we had to choose whether we would want to be a Pilgrim or a Native American. I chose Pilgrim because they got to wear three petticoats!"  That would be Emily, of course.
 - "You don't want to do that, Emily.  You'll end up being an escape goat."  Malapropism should have been the vocabulary word of the day!
- "As long as we have Mommy, we will always have chocolate."  How very true.
- "Our house goes well with snow.  Other houses, they look good in the summer.  We look good with the snow."  I'm really hoping that this is observation of how the color of our house looks with the snow, not a criticism of our landscaping (or lack thereof).
 - "The best part of Christmas is the food."  "No.  The best part of Christmas is the presents!"  I'll leave it up to you to determine who said what.
- "I'm so relieved that it's going to be sunny and cold on Tuesday.  I do NOT want to do another ride to New Hampshire in the snow."  (1) My weather neurosis/obsession is apparently wearing off on Emily; (2) I didn't realize it was so stressful to sit in the backseat with headphones on, reading a book.
- "And...cue the tears," said Elizabeth at the end of our yearly viewing of The Polar Express.  My family, they mock me.
- "If he was punching a ticket for Emily, it would say BEHAVE," observed Elizabeth, also during The Polar Express.  "Yours would say ZIP IT," said Daddy, in Emily's defense.
- "I LOVE commercials!  Love, love, LOVE them!!"  Emily hates it when we fast forward through commercials, I can't understand why!
- "I have a new year's revolution.  What's yours?"  Another malapropism from Elizabeth.
- "Shave Daddy!  SHAVE!!"
- "If someone told me that I had to marry Justin Bieber, I would tell him that he has to quit smoking, drinking, doing drugs and behaving badly and only then would I consider marrying him."  You tell 'em, Elizabeth.
- "I'm beautiful, so I deserve a beautiful bed!"  It's official - the seven year has no self-esteem issues!
- "I can't believe you used to work like this all of the time.  I'm kind of surprised that he didn't break up with you, actually."  I recently had a long week of early hours and late nights; the kind of week that used to be very normal for me when the girls were little.  Elizabeth was very surprised to hear that and both girls told me that they were very happy that I get to spend so much more time at home with them.  Also, Elizabeth specifically said that she does not like the "D word" and so used "break up" instead.
- "I got a Valentine present.  Emily got a Valentine present.  Daddy got a Valentine present.  Poor Mommy, she's the only one that didn't get a present!" Followed by hugs and kisses.  Who needs a gift?
- "If I ever take a cruise, I want to take a cruise to the Bermuda Triangle so I can find out what happened to all of those boats and planes that went missing."  "That's not a very good idea, Elizabeth!" replied a horrified Emily.