So this one,

this sweet looking child who once suggested to me that I ought to shower after Pilates,

this same one recently offered this:

“Mom?” he asked, “Mommy why are you the one who stays home?  I mean, why can’t Daddy stay home with us and you go to work every day?  How did you pick?”

I’m guessing he didn’t expect the dissertation about how we both worked at offices and we we had babies we both decided that I could still do some work from home and he could do more of his work from an office and blah, blah, blah.  When he started to glaze over, I ended with, “and we both love you very much.”

Sometimes, shorter really is sweeter.