This comment I made tonight, got rewarded with a big eyeroll.

Thank you kid. You just encouraged your mother to continue to behave badly.

So quirky moms produce quirky kids. Who knew??

For the past few weeks younger kid- I will call them kiddo to spare them the further embarrassment of having a strange mother. Has requested another pet,

Hmm let me think, “no thank you”.

Kiddo, “But we’ve never had a pet squirrel before.”

Me, “yes, squirrels are not pets, they are rodents, vermin, ‘tree rats’”

I think I have made my point. I have a talent for creating strange and quirky kids.