Fall 2020 Fisher-isms

 Here is our most recent edition of funny family phrases and antics! Enjoy (we certainly do!)

• Riley (while playing the game Catch Phrase where you have people guess the word it gives you): "Oh yeah, Dad LOVES these! The cover is made of eggs." Us: ???  Answer: An omelet!!
• Maggie (while upstairs drawing on the floor of her room with a bajillion markers and pieces of notebook paper spread everywhere): "My next sequence for my book is going to be called 'Horror and School Life'." (Horror, is the name of the girl in the comic book she was creating who had a dog named Terror. She later changed the names to Holly and Teddy.)
• Maggie (while at the beach for Labor Day weekend): "I pulled all my courage and confidence into my two legs and went into the ocean."
• Maggie (helping me mix up meatloaf): "I got the measuring cup for the bread crumbs, Mom, so I don't plummet them all in the bowl."  
• Maggie (explaining that she didn't feel well after drinking a slushie): "My stomach feels like the aftermath of a sword swirling around in it." 
• Riley (while enjoying dessert and thinking up new snacks that he could invent): "I could invent a 'chocolate griddle' snack with marshmallow filling, brown chocolate icing on top, and in the middle swirl with whipped cream called charmallow brittle." Sounds good to me!!
• Maggie (after hearing from Chris about a biker who had an aneurism in his brain and yet was still able to finish the race that same day): "God had mercy on him, Dad, that's why he could do that!"
• Riley (responding to Maggie's idea to open a doggie daycare business called Happy Growlers): "I guess I would let my kids work there if they want, but they can also follow their dreams too and I won't get mad." I love that he's already thinking about his future kids!
• Maggie (talking at dinner about punctuation marks): "You know those 'sky commas'? Chris and I: "Oh, you mean apostrophes?" Riley: "Yeah Maggie, you used to call quotation marks 'double bouncy fingers', so this would just be a 'single bouncy finger'!" 
• Riley (thinking about life on a farm): "What are those cow squirters called again?" Me: You mean, udders?" Riley: "Yeah, that's it!" 
• Maggie (always enjoying her snack time as one of the highlights of her day): "You know, Cool Ranch Doritos have Christmas sparkles on them (red and green)."
• Maggie (responding to a Padlet assignment for her at-home school day): "I believe that Jasper Rabbit has a trait of fear, because of the way he screams when he sees the carrots. His mom and dad say there is nothing, buuuuut...WRONG! HA HA HA! Yeah. They are wrong. Because there ARE! BOOM! I need to check on my dog, Roxie, because we need her to be calm while we work. By the way, I love doing this, and can we do this every time?"
• Maggie (reading at bedtime): "I'm addicted to this book like a moth to a light!"
• Riley (who had left out some dress-up props by the stairs): "Roxie, stop smelling my ax." Chris: Totally misheard that last word! 
• Maggie (eating Chinese food one night): "I love crab racoons."
• Maggie (her newest expression of the month): "Geeze Louisiana!"
• Maggie (while Riley is giving the blessing for our dinner): "And help the meatloaf taste good tonight." I promise I don't feed these meatloaf all the time, even though it kinda sounds like. 
• Maggie (reading about a deadly volcano in Indonesia): "Mom, it says this volcano was in 1815. Were you alive then?" Me: "Really?? Come on, I know I'm old, but I'm not THAT old!"
• Maggie (after playing every song you can imagine on every Alexa device in the house every spare minute she can): "Last night I had a whole playlist in my head. I'm an Ultra Jukebox."  
• Riley (at dinner one night after hearing Chris talk about some of his students' recent behavior): "Dad, I know in the history of your students that they don't really admit their mistakes very much."
• Riley (after he got out of his shower): "Mom, I'm getting kinda mad. Every time I go to take a shower, my washcloth is gone and I have to go get a new one." Me: "I'm so sorry son that I take the time to wash your towel and washcloth and you have to be burdened to get clean ones!"
• Maggie (thinking about recent events surrounding the pandemic): "I wonder if I have Covid." Chris: "I don't think you do." Maggie: "Well, I could be asymptomatic. The whole family could be." Chris: "Well, you got me there,"
• Riley (on Halloween night while Chris and I were talking with him between house visits): "I don't need any distractions for Halloween. I'm going to hit every house in this neighborhood!"
•  Maggie (one night around bedtime to Chris): "I can't decide who I love most....Roxie....my parents....Riley....or the trampoline. Probably Roxie!" Chris: "Well, I'm just honored to have been a finalist on your list!"