fan

In Hobby Lobby yesterday, my son asked me why that lady was taking everything out of her cart and putting it back on the shelves.  After we passed, I said quietly, "Did you notice the Hobby Lobby written on her shirt? She works here."

"Oh!" he said, "I thought she was just a fan!"

 

I sent her to bring me tomatoes...

And she did, but with an equal amount of four-O-clocks for good measure.

when summer boredom gets creepy

1 pack of big googly eyes +

1 washable, non-toxic glue stick +

Four bored kids =

summer afternoon fun so hilarious I can hardly hold the camera straight.

~MB~

a conundrum

When you have a little boy who loves to pick flowers, even if those flowers were in the garden or flowerbeds, how can you say to him, "Stop picking flowers"? 

Someday this little boy will grow up to be a man.  Will he remember being a little boy who loved to pick flowers?

the blackberry butt dance

Do you know how to do the Blackberry butt dance?  I sure do. 

It's what happens when you're leaning on your elbows on the kitchen counter, reading a recipe for the dinner you're about to make, and you feel little fingers begin to slip into your back pocket looking for your phone...

And you do a little step over to the right.

And the fingers slip in there again.

And you do a little shimmy over to the left.

And the fingers come again.

So you go back to the right.

Fingers still there.

And you stand up on your toes as high as you can go.

At this point your dance partner will either a) laugh hysterically or b) start to scream.  It's all part of the dance.

At this point you can either a) pick up your partner and dance with him or b) continue dancing around the kitchen as you begin to prepare dinner.  The point is to make your partner forget what he wanted in the first place.  Make him think he just came and asked you to dance.

After a few whirls around the kitchen with your now-squealing partner, you're going to have to put him down and attend to that dinner.  So you go back to the counter, lean back over the cookbook...

And start all over again.