Little Blog has gone shopping with her Mom and her big sister, Sunshine, to stock up for the next visit to the beach, and to buy cheese for Sunshine.

She is giving both of them, as well as anyone within earshot, a running commentary on the events of the previous day, what she sees around her at the mall today, and what the connection is between the two. In Little Blog’s world, everything is connected. Which means, of course, that there is a lot to say. Amazingly, she eventually seems to run out of words. But it turns out that this is only to restart her onboard processor.

Suddenly, in the middle of the mall, she stops dead in her tracks.

“Mommy?”

“Yes Little Blog?

“Where do great-grannies come from?”

“They come from their mommies, Little Blog.”

“But Mommy, aren’t their mommies dead?”

Little Blog’s mommy is very much alive, but she has been speechless for several hours now.