We were just reminiscing tonight about funny things the kids have said.

Emily reminded me of the time she was talking to her dad, my darlin, about fishing. He said he was going fishing with his friend Dana (pronounced Day-na), and Emily said,

“Is mom OK with you fishing with a girl?”

To which my darlin replied, “Dana is a boy.” Emily said, “Oh, well that’s OK then.”

This is Neo.

He is a cute litte “Min Pin”, short for Miniature Pinscher.

He belongs to my friend Julie. He came to stay at Aunt Joy’s for a week while his mommy went on vacation. When Julie first got Neo, he had his tail docked, but his ears were not cropped. He also has skinny legs, like a chicken. So for years Julie called him a “chicken (because of his legs), bat (because of the ears) dog”. Then he got older and chubby, like a little tootsie roll.

Now he is a “Chicken, Bat, Tootsie!”

One other funny (or not) thing about Neo is that he is a really stinky dog. When I say stinky, I mean gassy. I have never been around a dog like this. When you’re in the same room with him, all of a sudden, the stinkiest most rotten egg smell, enters the room. If you say his name, he gets a sheepish look on his face.

He really should be called, “Chicken, Bat, Tootsie, Stenchy!

For some time now, there has been a mysterious whistle sound coming from the closet in our office. Our office is also home to our scrapbooks and school boxes, the mementoes we’ve saved from the growing up years.

In the closet, in one of the boxes (I think) is a toy or something that makes a sound at random times. We would love to locate the sound and see what it is, but the sound is so random and so short, that by the time we race to the closet to hear where it is, it is done. Needless to say, it is still there and may be there until we go through the closet. For now, we just get a kick out of it.

This is a story about four people. Their names were: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Actually, Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, Nobody did what Anybody could have done!

-Author Unknown

Everyone has a quirk. A silly part of themselves.

Mine is laughing.

I am a very happy person, but besides that, I laugh so easy.

I laugh at the right time, and the wrong time.

Sometimes I laugh so easy and I can’t stop. I know, really mature! But it’s true.

Now some people might be annoyed by this, but I am so grateful for my fantastic laughing ability. I know it is a gift from God. Sometimes when things are so frustrating, upsetting, unbelievably annoying, I have been known to laugh. Sometimes I don’t laugh right that second, but I will always eventually laugh.

And sometimes I laugh so hard I get a really good core workout, and a tear or two. Oh, and my cheeks push up and make my eyes almost disappear. (I just thought I’d share that last part, just for fun!)

Watch this funny video. You will love it!

I don’t think so. But I promise this spider had intelligence.

So, I was watching a movie in my bedroom one night, years ago. It was getting late. My darlin was working graveyard. Most of the time my darlin working graveyard wasn’t that big of a deal. Sometimes though, I really missed having him at home with me. So on this particular night, the night of the huge spider, he had left for work. I was sitting near the foot of our bed, when I saw a shadow coming out from underneath the entertainment center. It was moving. It was huge. 

Now at this point in the story, I have to tell you I really don’t have arachnophobia, I am not afraid of them, unless they are coming out from under the entertainment center and heading toward my bed. I can’t go to sleep with a huge spider coming toward my bed. So I tried to get it with a shoe. Did I mention it was huge. It would see me coming, and go back under the entertainment center. This dude was smart! This happened several times. I would wait for it to come out from under the entertainment center, which took a while, then I would try to go get it. Each time, it would turn and run back under. It was getting really late, and I was exhausted. I really needed to go to bed. But there was no way I was going to bed with a huge spider headed toward my bed. I can just see it, I am asleep and the spider climbs in my mouth or my ear or, I can’t even think about it.

So I got desperate. I called my darlin at work and ask him if he would do me a favor. He said, “Sure, what is it?” I said, “Can you come home for a minute and help me kill this huge spider?” He said, “You’re kidding, right?” I said, “NO! I’m not kidding!” He only worked down the hill from our home so it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. So he did, he came home to help me kill a huge spider. This process did take a few minutes. I mentioned earlier that this huge spider had intelligence. My darlin tried a few times to get it, but it just kept going back under the entertainment center.

Finally my darlin said, “I’ll flush it out and you get it when it comes out the other side.” At this point, I was totally OK with this.

And it worked. That huge monster of a spider came running toward me and I screamed as I smashed it with a shoe! I am surprise our kids slept though my scream. It was ok that I had to scream, it was ok that my darlin had to come home from work during his break, I finally got to go to bed and that’s what needed to happen for me to get there.

My darlin, my hero!

Note to self: Call exterminator tomorrow.

We had a super fun family party just before Christmas. It was with my darlins side of the family. Our nieces little boy, Baylor, came up to me at the end of the party and said, “Somethin’s wrong with your fridge, when I tried to get ice -a chocolate chip came out.”

You need to know that the ice part of the fridge is broken and hasn’t worked for some years. The fridge is quite old, too. It still works great, but we just don’t have ice and water in the door anymore.

The funniest thing about what Baylor said is that, in the shelf on the door above the ice chute is usually where we keep a bag of chocolate chips.

And on occasion,

it has been known to happen,

that someone reaches in the freezer and get a hand full of chocolate chips. Usually in a desperate attempt to relieve a chocolate craving. Apparently, a chocolate chip made it’s way into the ice chute, and came out when Baylor tried to get ice. Funny!

My  niece wrote this darling note to Grandma.

I love what she says,

“Gamma (Grandma),

You are the beast (best).

I will ever (never) forget you!

I love to vist (visit).

I don’t wate (want) you to mav (move).

My mother-in-law has it on her fridge. It has been there for some time. I always get a kick out of it. My favorite is, “Gamma, You are the beast.”

Funny and darling. I love it.