Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for July 19, 2015

Dodging bullets isn’t only done at work!

Whatever happened to the room Joan and Max used to occupy when they lived there?

Alix is the perfect age and mind-set to learn the facts of life. She can learn it as biology without the emotional baggage that will later complicate it.

Phil needs to learn when the kids are yanking his chain.

It’s going to be an educational experience. For in stance, Hollie will teach her to interpret Mom’s frequent little morning smiles. (And when she complains about being kept awake by the thumping bass notes from their bedroom, will remind her that there’s no radio in there.)

A simple “yes” would have sufficed. She didn’t ask why.

Now this was funny! LOL!

@RobertNowall and @Sam I Am: It became their grandmother’s room when she moved in. When Grandma got married and moved out, it became Alix’s room.

That was a close one.

Phil has to learn two lessons about being a dad: first, don’t give more information than is requested. A simple, “Yes, because that’s what married people do” would have sufficed. Second: children are going to ask difficult questions. Be prepared.

And I think it likely that Val never had Phil stay over when the kids were around.

No. She Never had Phil stay over..

I should imagine that a bright little girl like Alix, who is so interested in animal life, would figure it out on her own by now. When I was five, I was with one of my aunts, and imagine I gave her the secret giggles when I saw two chickens getting in on and said scornfully, “Do they call that fun?”

Because sleeping in the same room is what married people do, you silly!