Family language

My family loves to mock me.  I'm the queen of saying words and sayings incorrectly.  For instance once I said, "it's like chasing a dead horse".  I try to be careful but I mix euphemisms all the time.  My family lives for it because once the words roll off the tongue...  they are free game.  My family never forgets anything, like ever.  Thankfully, turnabout is fair play and on occasion they leave me something that I don't let go of either.  

When the kids were younger we went camping.  We stayed at a nice camp ground and we met nice people but being the nervous Nellie that I am,  I trust no one.  Whenever we camped I was in charge of showering, potty breaks, etc because we had 3 girls.  While this mom was up and down all night,  and all day my husband stayed at the campground and slept, I mean cooked and cleaned.  Once, when all of us girls were in the bathroom my youngest started walking back to our camp site unannounced.  I realized she was leaving and called her name.  I told her she had to tell someone when she left so she said, "Hello Lizard" because she saw a lizard at the door and then she left and that was that.  From then on whenever they left they'd say Hello lizard. A few years later when my oldest girl started driving them all around, I'd get a text from them with that phrase, "hello lizard", then it evolved into "lo lizard", until now it's just a simple "lo".  A few weeks ago my husband decided he wanted to start biking to and fro work.  The first day he called me and we made an agreement from then on that he'd text me instead of calling and he does every day when he arrives and every day when he leaves.  It simply says "Lo", but it makes me think of those great times when my girls were little and I complained because I did all the work at the campground.  Man, I miss those days.