Real Time to Remember: Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

...nary a puppy dog tail to be seen for miles.


Cadence, with her archetypal girly voice, "Do you know what I'm going to be when I grow up?"

Big Sister, distracted by clearing the New Year's Eve feasty table, "What?"

Cadence, clarifying, "...when I grow up to the tippy-tippy top of the sky?"

Big Sister: "What?"

Cadence, all dreamy, "A mermaid."

Now that's an impressive New Year's resolution.
Happy New Year, everybody!