Kitchen Note

It's Ash Wednesday. The beginning of Lent. If you don't count Sundays, there are now 40 days between this moment and Easter.

For Lent this year, I've decided to give up my son.

No, not really, but he is moving out today ... probably for good. At least if everything goes well.

He landed a good job, his own apartment, and a new car ... all in the space of the last week. (To be fair, he had spent a month as a paid intern at the company training sessions prior to all this.) For the record, he's worked very hard to achieve this, and we couldn't be prouder of him.

But, by this time tomorrow, Matthew will be well and truly on his own, our house will be a little emptier, and our daughter will have that much more room to grow up in.

It's shaping up to be an interesting Easter season.

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My wife, often busy, had a bad habit of leaving pots and pans on the stove with the burners on. So she resorted to posting herself a reminder on the kitchen door. It said, "STOVE!"

One weekend my son, who had been away at college, came home. The next morning there was a second sign taped up below the first. It said, "NO! DOOR! Trust me, I've been to college."

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WONDER for YOUR WEEK: Why does it take so many things to prove you're smart but only one thing to prove you're dumb?

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