7 Quick Takes Friday: Why Father’s Day was a blast, a snowball summer, misheard conversations, lasagna at last, a Chinese dragon boat, and a summer reading victory

For Father’s Day our sons were so busy not telling their father what his gift was that of course he figured it out. “It’s not an Estes rocket, Baba.””Did he just tell Baba a lie, Mama?”We had to get John an Estes rocket, and when we saw that they made one