Grace: “Mommy, will parties in the springtime have slip-n-slides?”
Donné: “Grace, are you missing the summer parties with slip-n-slides? Unfortunately you won’t ever be able to have one of those on your birthday….unless we happened to live in the Northern Hemisphere, close to The Cousin Who Shall Not Be Named. Then your birthday would be in the heat of summer.”
Grace: Pause….”Mommy, can you organise a play date with the cousin?”