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The Armstrong Family Circus

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wiseacre: Luke (to Sonya regarding the day of his birth) "You peed me out!" He was a c-section, so I'll show him Alien to explain it to him

wiseacre: 3 years ago today this our silly little man was pulled into the world: http://t.co/diDUGVQd

wiseacre: It's Luke's 3rd birthday today. This morning he said he was going to sleep all day (which is more a gift for me) http://t.co/tFuT37Q7

wiseacre: @camerondaigle hooray for feb 10th b-days! (it's luke's b-day today too).

wiseacre: @dhsmith you definitely would know

It's later in the evening on a Friday and the sun is going down. Everyone is running about gathering markers, lotions, food and random pieces of underwear. Everything in reverse. The kids are next door with their cousins. The house is quiet. The bags piled. Boxes stacked. Car hoods open and a quiet whir of the fan is the only voice. Leaving a vacation is sad, while being needed. The weight or returning to responsibilities; paying the bills, mowing the grass, making dinners, getting up early to get back to work, load on your back. To be a kid again, just coming and going and being. Just being. Summers aren't the same -- they aren't bad, but they're not the same.