When silliness takes adults over

And when I say "adults" I use the term loosely because I am meaning my brother and me.  We can get pretty goofy when we are together or, as is the case here, caught up in an impromptu rhyming game via text messaging...

It started off with my brother simply texting me saying "Then there were two"
I asked him, "Who bought the boys?"

S: They got ice cream
Me: Was it from a goat?
S:They had to cross with a boat.
Me: But did it float?
S: Only when they crossed the moat.
Me: (for some reason this text is lost and I can't remember what it said)
S: When they got across they sure did gloat.
Me: Until one of them got a frog in his throat.
S: He could get a doctor note
Me: But the doctors office was too remote
S: So they went to see a coyote.
Me: And he was realy cutthroat
S: The old indian told them to chew peyote
Me:And for that he took their last banknote
S: He fed his horse but only one oat
Me: So the horse submitted an idea to "Murder She Wrote"
S: For their father they will dote
Me: But what did their father's lifestyle promote?
S: Only after the vote
Me: How could his business stay afloat
S: You will lose he said and I quote
Me: There was fear one would come to demote
S: It's all coming down to the revote
Me: But did he wear a petticoat

(this is where I began to get desperate and could not think of anymore words...)

S: You can't keep throwing junk in front of words you already said. Fishing boat.
Me: It's a totally new word ;P are you going to revolt?
S: Doesn't rhyme. You lose.

(and this is where I began to grovel and just make stuff up)
Me: Does so... just say the 'l' really fast...

Anyway, I conceded defeat and that he had won fair and square - you know given the fact that I just kept creating "compound words" ending in coat...

We will do this quite often. Not this particular game but just out of the blue, and without there being an actual decision to do so, just begin playing some random game through texting.

Anyone else find themselves doing this?  Anyone... Marco...?  {fade to crickets chirping...}

How Funny is THAT?!!?

I've been saving this little story - not because I wanted to deny you its hilarity but because I seemed to always forget about it or have something else more imminent and timely.

WARNING: This story is quite funny and I would like to pre-warn every reader to put any beverage they may (or may not have) down, swallow what beverage or food item may (or may not) be in their mouths before continuing.  Consider yourself warned.  I am no longer legally responsible for any damage to monitors, keyboards, ipods, etc.

I was paying bills the other day, on-line as I always do, when Jellybean came up to me and asked what I was doing.
Me: Paying bills, honey.

Jellybean: Ugh, why do we have to pay bills anyway!?  What kind of bills are you paying?

Me: Paying the water, the phone, the power, the energy...

Jellybean: You have to pay for energy?!

Me: Yes, hon, you do...

Jellybean: Mom... (wish she still called me 'mama'; her sweet voice uttering that word was music to my mama ears but alas, she thinks almost 10 is too old to call me that now... {insert pouty face here})

Mom... (her little voice trailed off) do you, um, want me to sit down?

Me: (trying not laugh out loud at her innocence) Yes, baby, you should probably sit down.  I think your energy quota has been used up for the month...

How long do you think I can get away with that one? {GRIN}

You know the White Rabbit...?

Yes, the one from Alice in Wonderland.

This week I have felt somewhat like him.  I haven't been running around  crying, "I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!" but, I have been running around so much that I feel like I am never getting to where I am supposed to be.  A lot has been done - a lot of very productive things. It's just that this week seems to have had a snowball effect: do one thing and it results in a few more boxes to check off on my to-do list. 

It has been great!  I love being productive and all the things I have done or need to do yet are neccessary and a joy to do so there is no stress in my running. It just seems endless...

And that's ok. It's for a season.  Each night I am being refreshed by wonderful sleep - even if it isn't for as long as I think it should be...

Some of the highlights (which will be written about in some form or another in the next few days)
Going on a trip with a few youth to a neighboring town (and all the deer we saw - hundreds!)
Going to The City to see Rush (and meeting her boyfriend)
Our quest to find furikake without even knowing what it was or looked like
A beautiful conversation with Jellybean


And that is not all...

it has been a great, full week which has meant that this, the blogging part of my life, was putting on silent mode... perhaps for a few days more.  I really am not sure.
Just wanted to let you know, I am not ignoring you.  Really.  It's not you.  It's me.  I promise... Let's be friends...

Oh, wait...wrong conversation. {grin} I will be back, with lots to say, and ready to read all that has been going on in your lives.

Sometimes

when they fight

I force myself to completely ignore them, hoping to "force" them to work it out.

Sometimes they don't

and I need to get involved and mediate...

and sometimes...

they bring closure to their fights in such a beautiful way...

I GOT A NEW CAR!!!

Technically, it's not new - given the fact that it was made in 1999 but, it is new to me and far better than the car I was driving, the car I non-affectionately referred to as the Regurjamobile on this blog a few times & in life daily.

The old car had problems that far exceeded your desire to read listed on my blog {not kidding!} and, while B.D kept telling me he was going to try to get it fixed, I have driven this car for 2 years too long! We have had it for two years.  Aside from the mechanical issues of the car, I disliked the all the mechanical issues....

The "new" car... is a 1999 Grand Marquis, metallic red, power everything, the interior makes it look as if no one ever sat in it - ever! It runs like a dream! Seriously!  I am not kidding.  So that, my friends, is my new car.  I have no photos of it, at this moment, perhaps...  But I am so excited and... I have never, ever had a car in MY name before!  Never, ever...

my husband balked me getting this car.  I'm certain he is worried about me having some independence and not at his mercy. I'm also certain that this is all about control.  

I wish I had the strength to tell someone how I feel,  how I am being treated...how much my children and I need to get away.. 

Bug had a bug,

a viral infection to be exact and that, my dear friends is why it has been so silent here the last few days.  B.D. has been on sick duty during the day; I am still on my probationary period at work so I don't have sick days yet.  He does.  We didn't need the lost income if at all avoidable.  So... B.D stayed home with the Buginator during the day.  I snuggled with him during the evening - my dear Bug with his on again off again 101.8 degree fever.  After the third day of struggling to get his fever down, we took him in for diagnosis "viral infection".

So needless to say, this week has consisted of lots of snuggles, stories, songs, dry toast, bananas, baths and "sick" laundry. I would have to say, if there to ever be a silver lining to sick children, it would be the snuggles - not that I wouldn't prefer the snuggles without the sickness. Hands down I so would!

I lost my glasses on the weekend.  I know! I don't need them all the time.  You see I have perfect vision but, I have an astigmatism which doesn't allow my eye to focus properly and so, they tire out very easily.  That being said, my eyes are now rejoicing because I have chosen 2 new fun frames and they will be ready sometime early next week.

Hoping

to get all the photos I want to edit from the past three photoshoots done in the next couple of days.

to get some of the last photoshoot on here.

to get the other two families their cds/usb drives very soon.

to get on-line inspiration for the impending newborn photoshoot I will be doing with one of the aforementioned families.

to get my voice back (so thankful for the minimal sign language I do know and the fact that Jellybean can translate for me! Stupid laryngitis) - you know before tomorrow when I am supposed to sing (back-up) at church and bring the testimonies to our congregation... Think they will lose ooomph if brought to them by someone who sounds like an oompa loompa?

my Bug will be all right.  His big cousin left, again, yesterday.  Moved to another province - again. He didn't sleep well last night, is crying at the drop of a hat and is currently sleeping on the couch after crying his little peepers out.

to get groceries today.  {how long will Bug sleep}

to get some school sandwiches made and frozen and some breakfast burritos done too...

What are you hoping to get accomplished this weekend?