Ten minutes before taking my 10-year-old son Ben to basketball practice, I glanced into the living room.  There I saw young Ben doing push ups, push ups on the couch.  It was disturbing behavior.  Some would even call it “squirrelly” behavior.  I moved on.

Onto picking up Ben’s friend to take him to practice, as well.  There in the backseat, the two of them giggled as they filled out a Mad Libs book.

“Hey Dad, name a plural noun.” Answer, “squirrels.”

“Name a noun.” My answer, “squirrel.”

“Name an adjective.” Oh, you know it, “squirrelly.”

“Dad, you’re using ‘squirrel’ for everything.” Yep, sure seems appropriate for tonight.