Conversations

Recently in the grocery cart:

Galen: Mom, I want more tattoos on my arms (he says with four already on his body).
Me: I think if you have more than four tattoos on you start to look like a hooligan.
Galen & Hayden: [giggles]
Galen: Hooligan? Hooligan? What do you think Mrs. Hooligan?
Galen & Hayden: [more giggles]

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Recently in the car:

Galen: I can't wait to live there! [points out the window]
Me: Galen, that's a retirement home.
Galen: I know and I'm going to live there with you when I'm 100.
Me: When you're 100 I'll be really old.
Galen: You mean like an old fart?

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Recently before bed:

Galen: I think there is a ghost under my bed.
Me [trying to take the easy approach]: Ghost aren't real. Remember people go to heaven when they die?
Galen [bursting into tears]: But I don't want to go to heaven!
Me: Why?
Galen: Because I will need a mom and you will still be down here!

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Recently leaving the house:

Me [frustrated]: Galen put on your shoes now or you can just stay home!
Galen [sympathetically]: Does God feel sad when you yell at me like that?