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“If you can’t depend on your family interfering in your personal life, what can you depend on?”

“Cookie cutters don’t work with chocolate chips, and you can’t frost them.”

“Yum, frosted chocolate chip cookies. I think you’re on to something.”

“How do you know it’s plastic?”

“I’m five. All my toys are plastic.”

mud wampum

“W-what’s that?” Danny asked through a cough.

“It’s when we go out in the dirt after it rains and splash the truck in the mud puddles. In Texas, mud puddles get really big.”

“His temperature is still high, 102.5. I’m going to give him some ibuprofen.”

“Is that OK after he had the Tylenol?”

“It’s perfectly fine. Both medications have the same goal, but they work differently. Lots of kids have high fevers, and we bring them down with both medications all the time.”

“It’s not cruel to strip a burning kid down to his underwear. It’s much worse to let the fever stay high and keep all that heat in.”

“You’re a serious cocoa die-hard.”

“I have a five-year-old. Marshmallows are a must.”