Total pages in book: 80
Estimated words: 78466 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 392(@200wpm)___ 314(@250wpm)___ 262(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 78466 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 392(@200wpm)___ 314(@250wpm)___ 262(@300wpm)
Hannah: Or get lucky.
Sam: Not appropriate.
Hannah: Oh come on. Pa whistled when you got home from that special meeting you had to go to the other night because you were wearing the Hugo Boss suit that he says fits you a little too tight. He leaped at you like a spider monkey when you got near the couch, and you carried him up the stairs and closed the door.
Kola: We’re not stupid.
Sam: …
Hannah: Oh, Dad, lighten up. We’re not babies. And Pa says that when two people love each other, sex is a wonderful manifestation of that.
Kola: Yeah, but you don’t have to be in love to have sex. Pa also says that condemning people who have sex just because they want to is not right. As long as everything is consensual, and between adults, then it’s all fair game and not for anyone to judge.
Sam: Yeah. Good, I agree with all that.
Hannah: Okay, so you’re saying bed is for sex and sleep.
Sam: Yes. No watching TV in there, no working, no papers spread all out—nada. Two activities, no others.
Hannah: Did you always believe that?
Sam: No.
Kola: So you don’t even think you should read in bed?
Sam: No. Your mind won’t switch off if you read in there.
Hannah: I read in bed.
Sam: Which tells your brain that staying up to do that is fine. Your bed should be for closing your eyes.
Hannah: Can I read on the floor?
Sam: Yes, or on the perfectly good window seat I made you with all the pillows.
Hannah: Yeah. I love the hurricane lamp that you hung up too.
Sam: I know.
Hannah: I love you.
Sam: I love you back. C’mere.
Kola: And now for the hugging break.
Sam: You too.
Kola: I’m getting a little old for—oof.
Hannah: Awwww.
Kola: Shut it.
Hannah: The daddy and the baby.
Kola: I’ll murder you.
Hannah: Heh. You can try.
Sam: Moving on.
Hannah: So the answer is sleeping and sex only in the bed.
Sam: Yes. God. No more recaps.
DEAR JORY:
What are some fun hacks you use in the kitchen or in other places in your home.
Hannah: I don’t know if we can do this one.
Kola: Sure we can. Uhm, he uses the pizza cutter for cutting herbs.
Hannah: Oh, that’s true. He rolls it in all directions, and it gets things like chives super small.
Kola: Yeah.
Hannah: He puts pancake mix in his pastry bags and squeezes it out so all of them are the same size and it doesn’t get messy with the ladle.
Sam: That’s how he does that?
Hannah: Yeah.
Kola: When the cookies just come out of the oven, he puts that small round glass dish over them and makes fast circles to make them perfectly round.
Sam: That’s how they’re always perfect?
Kola: Yep. And that’s why you have to bake on parchment paper so you can do that. Plus, Pa says you should always use it to keep your bakeware beautiful.
Hannah: Another thing is, he always shapes the aluminum foil to the outside of the pan, not the inside.
Sam: Why?
Hannah: Because then it fits right in.
Sam: Huh.
Kola: Other stuff, he puts lip balm on paper cuts.
Sam: Why?
Hannah: He says that it soothes and coats and it feels better.
Sam: Okay.
Kola: He hung all the shelves in my room upside down so that way the brackets made built-in bookends.”
Sam: Interesting.
Hannah: We have that cereal box that he recovered with wrapping paper that is on the fridge with magnets, and that’s where all the menus are for takeout. And he put ice cube trays in my top drawer for all my earrings before Uncle Aaron bought me my vintage jewelry box in Paris. I still use the trays for my costume jewelry though.
Kola: And we have that tension rod under the sink for all the bottles to hang off of and the magnetic knife strip for all the scissors.
Hannah: He puts dry tea bags in our shoes too.
Sam: Yeah, I know. It’s annoying.
Hannah: But your shoes don’t smell.
Sam: That is valid.
DEAR JORY:
My husband and I came home from work one day and found our sixteen-year-old locked in their bedroom. When the door opened, a young man walked out. Now our kid swears nothing happened, and they just talked. My husband is angry and wants to ground our kid until their thirtieth birthday. I say I trust our kid, and if they say nothing happened, then I believe that. What do you think?
Kola: Holy crap! That’s exactly what happened to me but the other way around, do you remember?
Sam: Of course I remember.
Kola: So, what would you tell people?
Sam: The same thing I said before that I always say. Trust but verify.
Hannah: How do you verify that?
Sam: You ask for precisely what went on, and then you reiterate the rules of the house.
Kola: And is there a difference if it was a boy coming out of a girl’s room or vice versa?
Sam: No, because the concerns and consequences are the same.