Reasonably Educated Bumpkins

I'm back, more or less, after a very busy Christmas season. Here are a few snippets of holiday conversation from around our house to start the year off right.

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Smedley, singing while she flossed:

"Deck the halls with ugly snowmen
Fa la la la la, la-la la la!"

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After Mommy cleaned and rearranged the living room . . .

Sparky: "I bet, if somebody camed to our house, they wouldn't necorize it."

Smedley: "Not 'necorize,' 'RECKINIZE!'"

Never mind her diction -- it doesn't say much for my housekeeping, does it?

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Mommy, explaining "salud" or "kampai" or some other foreign thing I'd said while clinking glasses: "It's a toast, it's a cheer, it's a --

Smedley: "A female cheer."