Give 'Em Watts, Mom and Dad!

All three Llama-ettes got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, something that is not very usual at Orgle Manor. As they sat at the breakfast table snarling at each other, I was suddenly reminded of what my mother used to do when my brother, sister and I started to fight among ourselves.

Riffing on the old Katzenjammer Kids comic strip, her habit was to take a certain famous quotation from Isaac Watts, come to attention, bug out her eyes, and deliver in a heavy comic-German accent the line:

Birdies in der little nests.....AGREE!

I'm not sure this really caused the animosity to die down amongst us, but it did at least unite us in the common belief that Mom was a bit crazy.

I'll have to give it a try with my own brood.