* Angela, tapping into her Sicilian roots.
Overheard from the kitchen (this is why I sometimes want to stay in bed):
Angela: "Oops. I made a mess."
Elizabeth: "That's ok. I did too, Angela."
Angela: "You and me and Elizabeth and your husband are a family."
Friday, April 25, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Need more funny quotes?
Angela: "When I eat Play Doh, I will get sick, and then I will eat English muffins."
After one of them passed gas:
Angela: "It smells like fairies!"
Elizabeth: "It smells like something else..."
Me: "Who wants to put a new garbage bag in the garbage can?"
Elizabeth: "Um...you?"
Elizabeth, playing with her small wooden dolls: "These people want to rent the dollhouse!"
After one of them passed gas:
Angela: "It smells like fairies!"
Elizabeth: "It smells like something else..."
Me: "Who wants to put a new garbage bag in the garbage can?"
Elizabeth: "Um...you?"
Elizabeth, playing with her small wooden dolls: "These people want to rent the dollhouse!"
Monday, April 7, 2008
Dealing with snakes
Angela has a new pretend friend, a snake named Brushwater.
(For those keeping track, her friends are named: Flower, Flower, Joe, Ralph, Drill Press, and now Brushwater.)
She told me all about her new friend, how he's a nice snake and how he sleeps funny. Then she said:
"Bad snakes need a lot of alone time."
(For those keeping track, her friends are named: Flower, Flower, Joe, Ralph, Drill Press, and now Brushwater.)
She told me all about her new friend, how he's a nice snake and how he sleeps funny. Then she said:
"Bad snakes need a lot of alone time."
We have mad haiku skillz.
We (my family, Than, Susie, Lance, and Mandy) spent much of the weekend playing Robert Surprise, where each person writes a line in a haiku. Here are some of the gems resulting from our game:
"Cheerio, old sport!"
Ironic, considering
redneck upbringing.
Keep the ole chin up,
You undead rebel soldier.
It's Taco Tuesday.
Innocence was here,
but left before I caught up.
D'you have her number?
These are the ones I can remember, though there were many, many more good ones.
Since I'm recording them, I want to commemorate what I consider the best haiku, written in one of the first rounds of this improvised game, many years ago. Mindy and Susan deserve two-thirds of the credit, and I can't remember the third author:
Weevils in the wheat;
Must be a hundred of them.
Sounds like Rice Krispies.
"Cheerio, old sport!"
Ironic, considering
redneck upbringing.
Keep the ole chin up,
You undead rebel soldier.
It's Taco Tuesday.
Innocence was here,
but left before I caught up.
D'you have her number?
These are the ones I can remember, though there were many, many more good ones.
Since I'm recording them, I want to commemorate what I consider the best haiku, written in one of the first rounds of this improvised game, many years ago. Mindy and Susan deserve two-thirds of the credit, and I can't remember the third author:
Weevils in the wheat;
Must be a hundred of them.
Sounds like Rice Krispies.
Overheard yesterday
Can you guess who said what?
"White panties are the very best panties of all!"
"My hair is jingly like my friend fuzzy's big sister."
(and what it means?)
"White panties are the very best panties of all!"
"My hair is jingly like my friend fuzzy's big sister."
(and what it means?)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Open for business
I am a woman-owned business!
I registered my name and filled out mountains of paperwork, got a federal employer id number, and went through all the state channels, and I am now officially a Business Woman.
With these important numbers in hand, the world is open to me. I can fill out important insurance documentation with a sense of authority. I can visit Costco in the early hours. I can deduct my cell phone for the business expense it is. I can put three little letters (LLC) after the name of my business on the new business cards I will surely need.
It was all much easier than I expected, and I'm surprised at the amount of perks that have and will come from so little effort.
It's a new world. My business, Labor of Love LLC (or, as I now think of it: LOL, LLC -- hehehe), is now officially open.
ETA: Overheard at the city office while applying for said license:
Elizabeth, to another girl: I'm in the second grade!
I registered my name and filled out mountains of paperwork, got a federal employer id number, and went through all the state channels, and I am now officially a Business Woman.
With these important numbers in hand, the world is open to me. I can fill out important insurance documentation with a sense of authority. I can visit Costco in the early hours. I can deduct my cell phone for the business expense it is. I can put three little letters (LLC) after the name of my business on the new business cards I will surely need.
It was all much easier than I expected, and I'm surprised at the amount of perks that have and will come from so little effort.
It's a new world. My business, Labor of Love LLC (or, as I now think of it: LOL, LLC -- hehehe), is now officially open.
ETA: Overheard at the city office while applying for said license:
Elizabeth, to another girl: I'm in the second grade!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Tagged!
Five things about the girls:
Angela
1. She has a tendency to overexplain, or over-adjectivize; not sure how to characterize it. But she often says things like, "I'm the kid pretending to be a nice princess who likes wearing blue!"
2. She has caught the prayer bug. She loves to pray. Whenever a prayer is being said, she eagerly volunteers herself, although she may not say the typical things and even though she closes by saying "and the name is Jesus Christ" instead of "in the name of." I don't think that any child has ever expressed so much gratitude for flowers, stars, and butterflies.
3. She likes to have books read to her, and then she will repeat what was read as she turns the pages. Sometimes she likes the entire book at once, and sometimes it's a page at a time. She has memorized a few books this way.
4. Snuggles fix anything that's wrong. She can never have enough. Her philosophy of life is "I love everybody!"
5. She is extremely sensitive to scary movies or cartoons. For example, she doesn't like the tense moments of Mariposa, the new Barbie Fairytopia installment. She will either hide her head under a pillow or leave the room if the music gets too suspenseful or the darkness grows on the TV.
Elizabeth
1. It's easy to slip into superlatives with Elizabeth. She is the smartest little girl I've ever known. She taught herself to read and write, and she is a fantastic artist. She knows what mammals, marsupials, ungulates, and monotremes are. She also can tell you what dihydrogen oxide is better known as, as well as its three states.
2. She frequently makes up her own songs. Sometimes she uses existing tunes and her own words. Yesterday in the bathtub I overheard her singing a lovely, introspective, non-animal version of "Old Macdonald" in a minor key.
3. She was recently caught after a cupcake-decorating party, putting frosting and sprinkles on the skin of her apple.
4. I once told her "you don't know if you like it until you try it." She took it to heart, and is quite adventurous about trying new foods.
5. She loves her family. She tells us several times a day.
Angela
1. She has a tendency to overexplain, or over-adjectivize; not sure how to characterize it. But she often says things like, "I'm the kid pretending to be a nice princess who likes wearing blue!"
2. She has caught the prayer bug. She loves to pray. Whenever a prayer is being said, she eagerly volunteers herself, although she may not say the typical things and even though she closes by saying "and the name is Jesus Christ" instead of "in the name of." I don't think that any child has ever expressed so much gratitude for flowers, stars, and butterflies.
3. She likes to have books read to her, and then she will repeat what was read as she turns the pages. Sometimes she likes the entire book at once, and sometimes it's a page at a time. She has memorized a few books this way.
4. Snuggles fix anything that's wrong. She can never have enough. Her philosophy of life is "I love everybody!"
5. She is extremely sensitive to scary movies or cartoons. For example, she doesn't like the tense moments of Mariposa, the new Barbie Fairytopia installment. She will either hide her head under a pillow or leave the room if the music gets too suspenseful or the darkness grows on the TV.
Elizabeth
1. It's easy to slip into superlatives with Elizabeth. She is the smartest little girl I've ever known. She taught herself to read and write, and she is a fantastic artist. She knows what mammals, marsupials, ungulates, and monotremes are. She also can tell you what dihydrogen oxide is better known as, as well as its three states.
2. She frequently makes up her own songs. Sometimes she uses existing tunes and her own words. Yesterday in the bathtub I overheard her singing a lovely, introspective, non-animal version of "Old Macdonald" in a minor key.
3. She was recently caught after a cupcake-decorating party, putting frosting and sprinkles on the skin of her apple.
4. I once told her "you don't know if you like it until you try it." She took it to heart, and is quite adventurous about trying new foods.
5. She loves her family. She tells us several times a day.
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