When our family drops in, they REALLY drop in

[oracle_watching]

My stepdaughter's currently sleeping in her room, but I'm not sure how long that will last. We're coming up on Mary's regular morning shouting time. My daughter has a very healthy pair of lungs, and for some reason she's decided that the last hour before lunch is exercise time. She isn't screaming: just being very, very loud. I think she's

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[xander_harris]

Still sounds better than Christmas with my family. At least until I moved out. Then it got a little better.

would using a tranq on those shouting be considered, you know..."wrong"?

[oracle_watching]

In the case of my daughter, yes. As far as your relatives are concerned? Different story.

[grenade_girl02]

I think I'm just going to be grateful that shouting time hasn't started around my house yet. Well... the five-year-old can cause his share of noise, but Livia is mostly quiet. Not that she doesn't occasionally decide to scream at the top of her lungs for a few hours, but that's a thankfully rare occurrence.

[oracle_watching]

My sympathies in advance, should Livia turn out to be a shouter.

I keep telling Dick his genes are responsible. That's the show-off side of the family, after all.

[_nightwing_]

I'm trying to distract her with Goldfish. I think she's winning.

[oracle_watching]

Guess she didn't inherit your Goldfish-loving gene, sweetie.

Doesn't she have the prettiest eyes, though?

[_nightwing_]

Just like her mother's.

[oracle_watching]

I love you, too.

... Sweetie, I think she's turned Gypsy's food dish into a percussion instrument again.