You know that really gooby, nauseating in love/engaged couple?  You know the couple who are always making eyes at each other, giggling and tickling and just making you want to vomit in their presence?  You’re familiar right?  Perhaps you’ve been that couple yourself, or gasp, you are that couple right now.

Well, that couple lives at my very house.  And it is nauseating, and annoying and weird.

They’re 4 and 6 and they are brother and sister.

Yes, Sugar and Engineer are in love, my friends.  They are constantly tickling and giggling at the table and they want to be with each other ALL THE TIME, regardless of whether or not the interactions are pleasant ones.  They constantly hug and smack each other’s bums.  Charming is in denial about it– thinks it’s ridiculous, but he was not in on the following conversation:

We had been discussing the story of the widow’s mite, and Engineer had many questions as to what a widow was.  He just had to wrap his little six year old brain around the concept.  I told him a widow was someone with no husband because her husband had died.

Eng: So does Aunty Jessica have a husband?

Me: No…

Eng: So is she a widow?

Me: No.  Grandma Chris is a widow because her husband died.

Eng: Oh.  So when I grow up and get married, and Sugar grows up and gets married… and I die…

Me: Mmm hmmm

Eng: Then SUGAR will be a widow!

Me: No, your wife will be a widow. 

Eng: Why?

Me: Because you’ll be married to your wife.  You can’t marry your sister.

Eng: (dismissive) No, no, no, no.  Wait, why?

And there you have it.  They are in love and intend to marry.  But seeing as he hasn’t yet passed through the valley of hating girls and being sicked out by them, I’m not too worried.  I think he’ll figure it out in the next 15 years or so.

In the meantime, I’ll just have to learn to deal with the goo-goo eyes.