Hahahaha! First time I’ve ever reblogged someone else’s post, but I couldn’t help myself–this cracked me up too much.

“ICH LIEBE DICH, MEINE SCHATZ!!!”

My father was fond of shouting at us in German when my brother and I were children. His favorite thing to shout was reserved for those times when we were restless after we’d been tucked into bed, and it went something like “MACHEN SIE AUGEN ZU UND SCHLAFEN BALD DEIN!” I’m sure I’m butchering that, because mein Deutsche ist nicht so gut and I’m remembering what he yelled strictly phonetically, but roughly translated it meant: “CLOSE YOUR EYES AND GO TO BED!”  We knew he meant business if he was yelling at us in German.