Overheard at the Campground

Jill's Journal: We said a sad goodbye to Kristi, Adam, and Baby Logan today, finding ourselves a few hours later ensconced in a campground near Sequoia National Park.

As we were setting up, another family pulled up and began to do the same thing. Like us, they were also a couple with three young children. Unlike us (hopefully), they were clearly a bit frazzled. It turns out they’d had a long, multiple-day drive and were simply at the end of their respective ropes.

The father, looking half-apologetic and half-happy-to-escape, left his overwhelmed wife to make dinner and wrangle their children while he went to the store. This exchange is what we overheard:

“Honey,” he said, “I’ll get you a six-pack or a 12-pack, whatever you need. What do you want?”

Without missing a beat, the mother returned, “A sedative!”

Oh, how we laughed. You just can’t make this stuff up.