'I'm not beautiful, I'm pretty!' (Angrily at age 2 and a half. After getting into his sister's toy makeup case and being called beautiful...)

I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

'There is no such thing as 'fun for the whole family.''

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.