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Note - dishwashing detergent is very different from dishwasher detergent. :D

Things Kids Say :)

I love hearing the things kids say. They amaze me with their wisdom at times and, other times, simply crack me up. :)

Here are a few things I've heard this week:

From my 7 year old when I went to wake her up - "I'm highly allergic to getting out of bed."

From my 10 year old as we were heading to a tax day tea party last Thursday night - "You know, government is like oxygen." Needed for health, but in limited amounts. Too much can have hazardous results. (Wow - that one shocked me. I thought it was very well thought out and well said. I asked her where she got it from and she told me she came up with it herself.)

Now, picture the same child a few days later looking through the calendar at the holidays - "Wow - we have a holiday for mayonnaise! Cinco de Mayo!" ;)

Have a wonderful day!

April Fools

In honor of April Fools Day, I thought I'd share with you what has to be one of the funniest moments of my year. Below is an original post from the end of last June. (Just to give you an idea of our life at that time, we were still in the rental house and our house was just getting finished being fixed after the tornado. I was over at the house daily working on finishing up painting the back half of the house and stress levels were rising. God knew it was a good time for a hearty laugh!) :)

Can't Believe I Did That! :)
Have you ever had days where you know God has a sense of humor and wants to use laughter to break the stress?To be honest, I have been feeling a lot of stress over the unknown. We're so close to being done - they're saying by Friday - but there's still stuff to be done. (Of course there's stuff left, otherwise they'd be done now). I don't know yet when exactly we're moving, if we're packing ourselves or hiring a moving company, etc. I'm not, by nature, a patient person. (My sweet husband, I'm sure, would put in a big amen.) :) But I know God's working on that and using all the circumstances for good. He's got it all in His hands - I just sometimes get ahead of myself trying to figure it all out.Anyway, yesterday morning I went over to the house to wait on the cable guy. (We were getting it installed early so that he'd be done with the attic by today when they're scheduled to blow in the insulation.) My cell phone belt clip broke a couple weeks ago, so I had it in my front pocket. Nature called and, midflush, the phone fell out of my pocket and was flushed down the toilet!!!! I heard it hit, turned, & saw it disappear. I tried to rescue it. No luck. Next I tried to pull myself together - I couldn't believe it and had to laugh (and laugh and laugh). I went to a neighbor to borrow a phone and call R to fill him in. He told me I had to be making this up; I assured him I wasn't that imaginative! The funny thing - I could hear the phone vibrating in the toilet and, when he called the number to see what would happen, R got a recording that the cell phone company was trying to locate me!!! :) Long story short, the plumber who happened to be working on our house yesterday tried to reach it with a tool, felt it, but couldn't pull it up. (So now I'm learning humility along with patience! We had to tell the contractors and the plumber!) Luckily though, the plumber pushed it on through in the process. My honey uninstalled the toilet last night and the phone wasn't stuck in it - glad we don't have to buy a new toilet since it was brand new. Tonight we'll install the toilet again and today I hope to go get a new cell phone. Meanwhile, if you call my cell phone and get a message that they're trying to locate me - you'll know why! :)

Update - I was able to get a new phone just a day or so after I posted this. I told the sales person that I dropped the phone in water. (True - just not detailed.) When she asked me if I had the old phone, I told her it was "gone - gone, gone, gone". :)