Sort:  

I can barely scrape together enough gray matter to read your new posts, let alone go through your entire blog history.

I am really trying to keep them as simple worded as possible.

I for one appreciate the work you put into your posts.

Part of it may be that I'm pretty sure having teenage kids has lowered my IQ by about 47 points.

I am really laughing out loud with this one. btw. I,Q is also a meme :) not really a thing. teenagers though can definitely cloud your mindfulness.

I think they're absorbing it; some kind of osmosis.

Yesterday we took them bowling for our son's birthday, the problem appears to have spread to athletic ability now as well.

those hormones huh?

Has to be something like that, I'm only 55 years old for goodness sake. ;-)