Falling Things

MADELEINE: (excitedly) I'm gonna have LETTER crackers! (reaching for the container of letter crackers and somehow knocking it off the counter.)  
JULIA: Pick it up! Hurry!
MADELEINE: (standing in shock, looking at the brand-new, now empty container on the ground and the kitchen floor strewn with letter crackers everywhere.)

And because there's not germs EVERYWHERE right now, I wisely recommended Madeleine just pick up all the crackers and put them back in the container and proceed to eat them.  Let's not waste a brand new, full container of snacks, girls.

Later on, Julia and I were recording a flute duet we've been working on, and we had our own falling object to distract us.  Watch the video closely, and you will see the piano lamp in the background suddenly fall off the piano, as if a phantom had just knocked into it.

So, we're eating dirty kitchen floor letter crackers and ignoring the hijinks of our very own Phantom of the Opera over here, just like any normal old day.

Renaissance

JULIA: I feel like it would either be really cool or really terrifying to see life in the Renaissance.
ME: Probably both.
JULIA: Yeah. 'Cause there'd be, like, armor, and...
ME: And plague...
JULIA: Yeah, and plague, but there would also be CASTLES.
ME: Right.
JULIA: Were there REALLY jokers?
ME: ...You mean jesters?
JULIA: Oh!  Yeah.  Were there really jesters?
ME: Yeah, I think so, I think they were a part of the King's court.

                                                                                Joker

Discussing Trump

 Discussing Trump, in which Madeleine is totally with the program.

JULIA: Isn't Donald Trump's last name really Drumpf?
ETHAN: Yes.  Drumpf is German.
JULIA: (mock gasp) He's German?  He's not even AMERICAN!
ME: Well, his Dad was from Germany, for real.  But Trump was born here.
ETHAN: And even if he was born in Germany, if you get citizenship, you're a real American.
JULIA: I know, I was-
ME: I know.  You were saying that because Trump is so anti-immigrant.  
JULIA: Right.
ME: I think European immigrants are okay by him.  He just doesn't want immigrants from Mexico. After all, his wife is Eastern European.
ETHAN: She got her citizenship suspiciously fast, though.
ME: She got a "genius grant." For her modeling. 
JULIA: She's not even pretty, though.  She looks like a CAT.
MADELEINE: (who has been sitting around the table with us this WHOLE TIME) Who looks like a cat?
JULIA: Melania Trump.
MADELEINE: Oh!  I thought you were talking about ELSA.

Yes, that's right.  This whole time we were not talking about the #1 pressing subject on our minds (for once, the election has slightly edged out the usual #1 subject of COVID-19), but about the characters from "Frozen."

BLM Article

 MADELEINE: (showing me an online headline over a photo of two people) Mommy!  This couple lived in a town called "Trump Country," and they got EVICTED from their apartment because they had a "Black Lives Matter" sign.  Isn't that TERRIBLE?

Well, you know how it is in the town of Trump Country.  

I explained to her what the term "Trump Country" means, which gave her more clarity on the whole story.  I guess at first she just thought: a) it's weird that Trump already has a town named after him after only 4 years as President, and b) How ironic that the town of "Trump Country" turned out to be as racist as Trump himself!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from these Rebel Girls!

We made it only until 6pm because it was so cold, but hey, we weren't even sure if Halloween was gonna happen at all!

Hope you all had a fun and safe evening!

Leaping Crystal

 I walked into the dining room to find this on the table:

ME: Someone decided to paint a rock?
JULIA: Madeleine did.
ME: Okay. Why?
JULIA: (laughing) She wanted to make a Leaping Crystal like in "Keeper of the Lost Cities."

Of course she did.  Who *doesn't* spend their Sunday morning painting rocks?

The Scent of Hair

Last night: 

JULIA: (giving me a hug, then sniffing my hair) Your hair smells like DISNEY WORLD!

This morning:

MADELEINE: (smelling my hair) It smells like PRESCHOOL.

Those are two totally normal descriptions for what hair can smell like, right?