Family Anecdote Lover Gifts

"Have you told Rayna your abuelita doesn't like her?"

"Have you met my bodyguard?"

"Do you have to do that even when it's not Valentine's Day?"

Wanda takes a more proactive approach.

'I never saw a tracer bullet that I didn't admire for color, clarity and swiftness.'

'It's time you knew the truth. You're not my real son. You're a novelization.'

Loving family

"Whadd ya wanna be for Halloween, Bro?"

Egalitarian family

"I can't use the computer tonight -- Dad has to scroll to his year of birth."

'Oh my, it's my sister's address! I'm delivering my own nephew!'

"This is your great-great-great grandfather Luis. He met your great-great-great-grandmother at the store where she worked. He was there to buy a lawn mower! She sold him a sheep. They hadn't invented law mowers."

'My teacher has a good memory. She remembers what a rotten kid you were.'

Child with picture of rocket

"Good memoir, but we're looking for something more candid. Like not-being-invited-home-ever-again-for-Thanksgiving candid."

"That's your uncle Colin. He's the black sheep of the family."

Mum, I don't care what these nasty kids say about my brothers Romulus and remus being adopted: I love them all the same...

'And to his son, he has left his Leprosy.'

He began with an anecdote, spoke off the cuff, digressed from an aside, and flew off on a tangent.

"A bum steer... Must be from your side of the family."

'Are we there yet?'

"Papi! Baldo broke my favorite pencil!"

'Boy, Grandmas sure are cute at that age.'

"There's Colonel Clapworthy alone with his memories - dirty old devil!"

'I'm not sure that mentioning your diploma in 'Monkey Business' really helps your resume...'

"I have my mother's eyes...my dad's nose...Abuelito's hair...and my great aunt's teeth. Just my luck to be stuck with my own brain."

'If I could choose I'd like to be my son.' 'When I grow up I want to be like my dad.'

'Mum.'

'You'd think you guys never saw a baby before!'

'My brother lost all his teeth last night. .. He slept with his head under the pillow.'

"If you must know, Jimmy, you came from a box in front of the market. It said 'Free Kittens.'"

"Papi, in 15 years, almost one in four college-age students in the United States will be Latino!"

"Oh Yeah? Well You've Got Covid Breath"

'I'm sick of quarrels.'