Sarah Jett Rayburn

@KESA1224 Congrats to you, as well! I remember that we both play by the random word method! I stopped posting mine because I got overwhelmed with social media for a while. (Unfortunately for me, I sometimes think picking all different words each night is how I play Learned League, too!)

@SJettRayburn Congratulations 🎉🥳🙌 CRAZY!! Me too👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 And mine was just the first word of my evening prayer 🙏 I’m like you… I just pick all Different words each night😊

What?! This never happens to me! Wordle 882 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My sister (leaving the Duncanville/Hutto playoff game, at random): Do you know the president, Chester A. Arthur? Me: Yeah. Her: Did you know his favorite food was snapping turtles? Me: Why, no. Her: But John Adams liked boiled potatoes. Me: Sounds like him. That John Adams!

Me: That's because you made me read all those books! 14 yo: You didn't read ALL of them! (mock tantalizing) The fifth one starts thousands of years in the future! I know how you love that! This guy gets superpowers, but they make him real tired, so he has to eat a bunch of soup!

14 yo: Look! Leto Atreides is in my book! Me: (reading) Turn giddy, and be holp by backwards turning 14 yo: And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom! Me: It's fun reading this with you! I'm glad your teacher suggested it. 14 yo: Yes, no one else gets my Dune jokes!

@TulaneTerry Monday Man, Tuesday Dude, Stay-at-Home Uncle, Wildcard Among Champions! Three cheers for Lawrence Long, a man for all seasons!

@SJettRayburn Upgraded to a Tuesday Dude. #Jeopardy

6 yo: I like that man. Me: You do, huh? Why? 6 yo: Because he is a Monday man. Me: What makes him a Monday man? 6 yo: Because this is a Monday. Do I have to spell it out for you? I know a Monday man when I see one. #Jeopardy

Me: I don't always know everything. No one does. 8 yo: Not even Google. But people think it does! They say, "Hey Google! What's the meaning of life?" And it's just like, "24." Me: 42. Your Google is exceptionally bad. 8 yo: Well, you see, I can't afford Google. So I use Goggle.

Me: I'm intrigued by the ghostly figure in this illustration. 8 yo: I see a spider holding a pitchfork. (Later) Me (reading): Her eyes looked into his eyes--and she vanished. (Seamlessly) And in her place was a spider holding a pitchfork. 8 yo (gasps, peeks): Hey! You tricked me!

8 yo: (bangs the piano twice) That was my song I'll teach you! It has words, too! Did you catch them? It's (bangs again), "Shut! Up!"

Me: If you can play this, we could play a song together. And I'll teach you the words. 8 yo: What are these gold pedals for? (I show him, then rise slowly singing intensely) Me: Oh but your lips were thrilling, much too thrilling! Never before were mine so strangely willing!

8 yo: Now I can play the piano! Me: A few years ago, mice built a nest in the piano. I saw a movie where they played a piano, and it was silent. Then I had a nightmare about it. To make sure it wasn't true, I touched our piano keys the next day, and they didnt make a sound!

@TommyZee81 He fears death! ("I love Moonstruck! It's got comedy! It's got romance! It's got Cher! I love Cher!") (Do you remember that commercial?) My mom and grandma watched Moonstruck all the time!

14 yo: I might name a baby Rose. But I'd be willing to consider a Greek name. Me: Rose is a Greek name! Well, it comes through Latin... 8 yo: Rose originates from Rose Nylund, a hero from ancient times.

@FederalLoaf Rowan is great! My husband loves that name! We were going to name our youngest Rose (after the cat). I thought about Persephone Rose but worried it sounded too much like a sentence. Penelope convinced us Rose was perfect, "like my Rosie Kitty!" But he turned out a Gideon!

@SJettRayburn We picked something in the rose family (Rowan) for our kid figuring she can call herself Rose/Rosie later if she doesn’t like it.

(As we begin book 22) 14 yo: Wait! Did he just say, "Dinner is served," and then jump on the table and start killing them? Me: Basically. (Reading) They scolded Odysseus in words of anger, saying: "Stranger, it is badly done to hit men. You will never achieve any more trials."

(As Odysseus turns his bow over in his hands, inspecting it) Me: (reading) And thus would one of them say as he looked across at the next man: "This man is an admirer of bows." (We all burst out laughing.) 8 yo: This is like you telling the barista, "My son is a scone fanatic."

Me: Uh oh. She forgot to brush her eyes. 8 yo: No, this is what happens when you do brush your eyes, remember? Me: No, the other guy brushed his eyes. She looks much worse! She doesn't even have eyes! 8 yo: She brushed too hard!

Me: Your 20 minutes are up. 8 yo: Let's keep reading. Me: Look at this great illustration! That's what'll happen if you don't brush your teeth. 8 yo: Hmm. That looks more like what'll happen if I do brush my eyes! Me: Never brush your eyes. See why reading aloud is so important?

My #Jeopardy rival @Ryan_Bilger11 and I are back for your listening pleasure. Make sure to listen as I face off against my dear friend (and bitter enemy). This premiered last year, so if you've already listened, be sure to tune in again!

Me (laughing in horror) "The walls bleed, & the fine supporting pillars. All the forecourt is huddled with ghosts...as they flock down to the underworld & darkness. The sun has perished out of the sky, & a foul mist has come over." 8 yo: But...is there a pigeon? Is he tremulous?

Me (reading): Now they laughed with jaws that were no longer their own. The meat they ate was a mess of blood, their eyes were bursting full of tears, and their laughter sounded like lamentation. 8 yo: Well this sounds horrible! Me: Yeah! You thought the tremulous pigeon wad bad!

Me: (reading) The suitors were compacting their plan of death and destruction for Telemachos, and a bird flew over them on the left side. This was a high-flown eagle and carried a tremulous pigeon. 14 yo: A tremulous pigeon?! Me: Seems inauspicious. Omens were clearer then.