It’s not a good look for me.
Ken, after he woke up with glitter on his face.
You have to unload it, Mommy.
Nadia, explaining how I needed to download a computer program.
Now we can do whatever we want.
Simone, moments after I left Ken in charge.
You’d bring them back. 
Mommy and Daddy’s response to a woman who said our kids were so cute she wanted to take them home.
Look at my hands.
Nadia discovering she can make shadows with her hands instead of going to sleep.
Boy dogs look like boys, and girl dogs look like girls.
Simone explaining the difference between boy and girl dogs.
Daddy, you got any money?
Nadia hitting up her father for money for a new doll.
I’m getting too heavy.
Simone’s way of telling Daddy to put her down so that she could take in the pre-game football hoopla.
Take off your glasses, Daddy, so you can see.
Nadia telling her father how he could get a better view.
Rain, rain go away. It’s not listening.
Simone trying her hand at being Mother Nature.
Google!
Simone naming a word that begins with the letter G.
Honeysmoke is the color of my skin and a childhood nickname. Mom provided the honey tones, Dad, the smoke. When I'm not working on this blog, I am a wife, mother, journalist, writer, teacher, sock picker-upper, referee, vice president of household finance, cruise director, short-order cook, chauffeur, kisser of boo-boos, and a whole bunch of other stuff that doesn’t pay much.