or you could just say "Shut your pie holes!"
Emmett and I have become partial to "Shut yer gob!" from it's repeated use on The Mighty Boosh.
We're back from our round-trip to Portland. Left on Thursday, back on Monday, so that's five days of trip, four of which were long days of driving.
And yet, we did okay. Everybody had a moment or two of grump and gripe but for the most part we traveled very well together. Emmett just absolutely flipped out with pent up energy when we got to our hotel room, so it was quite unfortunate that we didn't have pools to jump into. But otherwise we listened to Terry Pratchett audiobooks (A Hatful of Stars, and Thud), the kids watched videos in the back seat and we listened to music and toughed it out.
The wedding (JZ's brother) was lovely, though it was Way Too Hot for the Pacific Northwest (like, 96) and out on a dusty pig farm. (SRSLY) But as the day dimmed it was quite beautiful out there, and Emmett was thrilled to use the mammoth slingshot and shoot apples and gourds at distant pig sheds and the nearby creek.
Matilda was very excited to see her new Aunt in a very pretty dress getting married and danced quite a lot during the reception. First time ever I've danced to "Sex Machine" by James Brown at a pig farm.
We stopped by in the morning to see the bride and groom on our way out, and then had a second stop to see my ex-GF and her family (two kids). That was really fun, as they took to Emmett and Matilda took to the girl's dress-up wardrobe (Wonder Woman and Princess Tiana! Bliss!). I hadn't seen ex-GF since she'd had kids and she hadn't seen Emmett since he was about 6.
Hit Burgerville on the way out and got blackberry milkshakes. Saw much wild life on the way home, but managed to leave Medford at 7:30am, and get Emmett to his mom's by 1:00pm. And now we're home and tired of traveling.