I still call home almost every morning before the kids leave for school. Partly to make sure Rick hasn’t overslept and not gotten them up, but mostly to wish them all a good day and remind them of what is going on after school that day.
Mallory, who is seven weeks deep in her French class, always answers the phone with a perfect “Bonjour! Comment ça va?”, and I always have to dig waaaaaaay back to high school French to remember “Tres bien, et tu?”. Sometimes I slip and say “bueno” and get scolded for responding in Spanish when we …