I’m Thankful for the Talking back

Last Saturday, a friend of mine came over. As we were sitting on the stairs chatting, the boys were upstairs with my parents.  I heard them jumping up and down on the guest bed. I immediately called upstairs, saying, “BOYS! Come down here, now please!”  Immediately, I heard my son Yuri say, indignantly, “NO!” And then, I heard, his brother Aki say, “NO!” Although I immediately said, “excuse me!?” There was still a big part of me that chuckled as my parents said, “they’re pretending to sleep now!” and I…

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