The other day I came downstairs to my daughter playing all by herself. She was dressed up in a princess dress all pink and frilly carrying around her brother's wooden sword with quite a purposeful look. When she saw me she hid behind the door and peeked out with her sword at the ready. "Oh phew," she said, "it's you!"

Obviously she had been in deep make-believe land. I was tickled and played along. Where did you get that sword?

" My father," she said with a pretend accent.

"Who is your father?" I queried.

She said my husbands name, like, duh, who do you think, mom? ( I never know whether she is in or out of character)

Then  I said, "I thought you were going to say the king or something like that."

She looked at me all funny and said, "Well Dad IS the king!"

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Strange question from my 12-year-old; Monkey boy asked me the other day, "Mom, if you and Dad, like, accidentally had another baby would you keep it?"

"Of course!!!"

I was surprised to hear this question. I know he meant would we maybe give it up for adoption, but still. It was weird. I guess it was cause it was on the heels of talking about how we weren't planning to have anymore but it still surprised me.