Sitting around the dinner table, all three children, various boyfriends, dinner guests, and my mom, this is a rare event. We start talking about things we used to say when we were kids. Bryant called his cuffs his "cliffords" as in "roll up my cliffords, Mum." He called his jacket hood his neighbourhood.
My friend’s child used to think the first line of the Canadian national anthem was "Oh Canada, we’re almost out of land" instead of "O Canada, our home and native land," and my daughter thought the second line was "two saints in love" (that must be her Catholic school upbringing), instead of "true patriot love." So that would be "O Canada, we’re almost out of land, two saints in love, in all thy sons command."
My sister used to call music: moose cake. I say "used to" because she sure would sound funny calling it moose cake at age 47. My favourite was Elina’s expression for a sneeze that wouldn’t quite come. She called it a "stuck bless you."
Do you have any favourite kidisms?
Marina, three weeks into it, from a different angle:
Life's a Stitch 
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