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Daddy: Children should be . . .
Daughters: Seen!
Daddy: . . . and not . . .
Daughters: Heard!

They know the saying, but do they follow it? Not usually. Tonight they were both seen and heard as they kept our supper guests entertained. My coworker/friend Steph has a birthday tomorrow (as does Abigail . . . return, faithful readers, tomorrow for news about her birthday celebration), and she thought we should celebrate our close-together birthdays together. Steph, her fiancé John, and her sister Jenny had plans to go out tonight for adult beverages and invited Susan and me to join them. Instead, we invited them over to our house for supper and beverages as a warm-up to their going out afterwards without us.

As it turns out, John was called in to work tonight, but Steph and Jenny came over. The girls were energized and gave an animated, detailed tour of the house while Susan finished preparations for supper. We grilled burgers and enjoyed rum/brandy/fruit juice slushes and Long Island teas, moving indoors as the sun disappeared and the evening breeze froze us off the veranda! We had our dessert in the living room: Susan had softened vanilla ice cream and mixed into it chunks of brownie that she had baked and fresh raspberries that she had frozen--yum! Any time people gather in our living room, our daughters end up singing/performing, and tonight was no exception. We keep reminding them to be seen and not heard, but to them, to be seen requires also being heard. Love 'em!