Parents

I find it very amusing that when my children, who have actually have a little playhouse down in the basement, play "house", they refer to it as "parents". (Playing parents is one of their favorite pastimes.)

Speaking of parents, last night Dwight and I had a disagreement about the word integral. I pronounced it in-teg-ruhl and he corrected me with in-ti-gruhl. I stood by my pronunciation and he stood by his. We went back and forth and kept telling the other to go look it up. I even looked through the bookshelves in our room for a dictionary but we didn't have one up there (note to self: take a dictionary upstairs since it might actually get used up there). This morning I checked and guess what, both pronunciations are fine. Which I actually consider a victory for myself since last night I started saying that I thought maybe they were both correct. We'll see if Dwight also considers it a victory for me.

I also won our last disagreement about a phrase (due diligence). The only thing that sucks about winning is the difficult battle to not to gloat. Guess I'm big time losing that fight at this moment. But I will humble myself and tell you that he won "Six of one, a half dozen of the other" and "For all intents and purposes".

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