Summer Cloverisms

- "I'm glad I don't live in the ocean because there are so many predators."  Too many nature shows for Emily?
- "Every story that Grandpa tells has a moral.  Like the one about China - taste with your mouth, not with your eyes."  Elizabeth and my father like to discuss food.
- "Is there a locator chip embedded in me?  Why not?"  Someone reads too much.
- "Every time I make a wish on a wishbone, I wish to become a princess, living in a castle."  I was relieved to find out that Emily intends to invite me along.
- "I don't like to share."  She's said it before, but it still takes me by surprise.
- "Do you have any money in the stock market?" asked Elizabeth.
  "Yes."
  "A lot?"
  "All of our retirement money."
  "That makes me nervous.  What if there is another Great Depression and the stock market crashes again.  You will lose all of your money.  What will you do?"
  "I guess that Daddy and I will just have to move in with you."
   Silence.
- "I don't understand your friends.  Why don't they like kids?"  Elizabeth was very upset that she and Emily could not go to my high school reunion.
- "When daylight savings time comes in the fall, I want you to explain it to me very carefully."  Sure.  Let me look it up first.
- "The Hobbit was so good.  Like a cross between Percy Jackson and the Bible."  Hmmm.  I'm not quite sure what to think of that description. 
- "He's practicing for when a real dog or person walks by."  Emily, always the defender of Baxter, who is always barking, even when there's nothing at which to bark.
- "When I need an extra boost of speed, I turn on the O'Connor Family afterburners."  Elizabeth, explaining to me how she always seems to stay one step ahead during soccer practice.
- "I've narrowed my college choices to two.  Notre Dame and Yale."  Excellent.  Elizabeth needs to start studying and we need to start saving.