When we heard the Realtor in the hallway with the nice couple, we shooed all the kids into a back room and told them they had to play “the quiet game.” I forgot at the time that a two-year-old does not understand the rules of “the quiet game” or any rules of any game. I clapped a hand over her mouth, and suddenly it became the scene in The Sound of Music where the von Trapp family is hiding in the convent from the German SS.
