Dakota and the Canadians

Dakota: Mommy, I saw a Canadian today.

Louren: Really? What's a Canadian?

Dakota: Mommy, you know. They are kinda like a lizard, and they can be green.
But sometimes they change their colors.

Louren: Oh! Those Canadians.

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I just didn't have the heart to tell her the real word was chameleon. Plus, this is a way better definition, to me, of what a Canadian is.

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School starts on Wednesday for me (just in time for me to no longer be radioactive). We get kids the following Tuesday.

Summer in Texas. Short, hot and sweaty. I am sure there is some analogy to be made there, but I am too tired.