Ten Things That Have Made Me Laugh Lately

1. It was 65 degrees here this weekend.  We went hiking at a place called World's End.  It was gorgeous. 

2. When, at the 2 mile mark (and a half mile from the car,) the kids mutinied and said they could not take another step, I told them that we were being chased by dinosaurs and that we had to get to the car time machine before an asteroid destroyed it and trapped us in prehistoric times forever.  They beat me to the car by about 2 minutes.

3. My 5 year old asked me, "Momma, where did you get that (pen)?"  I answered her, "In Miami."  She looked at my puzzled and asked, "What's your ammi?"

4. We have some ambitious camping trips planned this summer - Acadia National Park and the Cape Cod National Seashore.  In an effort to get the kids ready to climb mountains I started looking for hikes we could take closer to home.  "Honey," I said, "Do you want to try geocaching?"  He looked at me seriously and asked, "Is this sex related?"

5. My 8yo son received the "Do It Yourself" Wimpy Kid book.  (It's a fill in the blank book with items such as "In 2024 the president will be __________________."  Of course he filled in his own name.)  Another one of the items asked, "Have you ever pretended to be sick in order to stay home from school?"  My son read this one aloud, looked around the room and said, "I'll never tell." Then he threw his head back and howled, "Muahahah."

6. My husband bought a "cleansing" kit last week.  The previous one he bought involved fiber, tea and a pill.  The fiber was a powder that you mixed into water but if you didn't drink it fast enough it turned gelatinous.  It was disgusting.  The one he bought last week contained 10 tubes of a red liquid.  "Is it going to turn gelatinous?" I asked watching him slowly pour it into a glass of water.

"No." he answered, staring at the glass of water.  "It's a concentrate." he whispered.  "So shhhh."

7. I've often lamented how many "tucks" it takes my children to be convinced that it's bedtime.  Last week my daughter got up and went to the bathroom.  When she came out of the bathroom she turned away from her bedroom toward mine.  "You're going the wrong way." I called to here.

"Yeah I am." she called back.

8. Last weekend I told my husband that I wanted to give blood at the local blood drive.  We all went for a walk in the woods and then we were so late getting back that we all went to the blood drive together.  My husband had not planned to give blood but when we walked in the nurse handed us both clipboards so he sort of got roped into giving.  (He's never given before.)

When it was time for the pre-donation interview my hemoglobin was too low and I couldn't give - so only my husband ended up giving. 

9. The town recreation department brochure showed up this week.  When my son was flipping though it he pointed to one of the pictures and said, "Mom, can I take swashbuckling?" (fencing) I said yes.

10. I took my four year old to a bowling birthday party today.  The one I ranted about last week.  She was an angel.  She high fived me when she got a strike.  To the mother of the birthday girl she said, "Thank you for inviting me, I had a great time."  To the birthday girl she said, "Happy Birthday.  I had a great time at your party!"  She really is bewitching when she's not trying to kill me.

 

Comments

[Lisa]

Number 6 had me laughing out loud!!

[Mrs. Jen B]

Love #3, mostly because I said something like that to my parents once which they still laugh about to this day.

Mom to little brother, who was spitting his food into his cup as he drank: "Don't spit out what's in your mouth!"

Me: *thinking...thinking...thinking* "What are outwits?"

Parents: *blank stare*

Me: "You said, "don't spit outwits in your mouth".

[Erin]

These are great... also along the lines of #3 my parents used to always tell us to "behave." We would indignantly reply "WE ARE BEING HAVE!"

[Aliza T.]

These always make my day! From this day forth fencing shall forever be known as "swashbuckling" in our house!

[christine]

love the concentrate.
i'd like to let you know that i found your blog through pw a few days ago and spent this past weekend reading every entry you wrote, starting with 'dear internet.' it's a shame i was too late to vote for you everywhere every time, but i'm happy to see that you won anyway. not that i condone voting abstinence.

[Julia @ Boredom Abounds]

Swashbuckling?? So cute!

[Amber in Maine]

#7 - Sometimes, even when they are being naughty they are SOOO cute and it's so hard not to laugh.

On the serious side - we have a 6 year old who used to like to get up. She's the "evil genius" of our house, too and had lots and lots of good reasons. She also likes to watch Avatar before bedtime. The deal is, if she's pouty about going to bed or gets up within the first hour, she goes to bed a half-hour earlier the next night and misses Avatar.

Yeah, you have to follow through and it took several nights of crying and sheer bitter stubbornness, but now just a hint that her bedtime MAY be set back usually gets her back on track in the evening. And no more getting up at all. I swear she must have just lay there thinking about the next excuse she'd use to come downstairs with, keeping herself awake but sheer willpower because she knew it bugged me.

[Carole Frenche]

#6 is adorable. :) That gelantious stuff is probably psyllium. I'm curious what he's taking that's a red concentrate. I'm starting my Spring cleanse and posting it to my blog. Feel free to follow along at www.carolefrenche.com or email me if you want tips. Really...what is that red stuff. I'm a little concerned. :)

[Chase McFadden]

Technically, geocaching could involve sex. Kick it up a notch.

The bedtime tucks. We are in year 7 of bedtime tucks with four tuckees and two tuckers (my wife being the mother tucker). Most memorable is our now 7YO as a 4YO wandering out for the umpteenth time one night and saying, and I quote, "Dad, was Yoda comfortable holding babies?" On that note, I told him to go get me a beer while he was up.

Your list made me laugh.

[Elle Oneil]

I laughed out loud at your husband's concentrate line. Funny list. Thanks for sharing! : )

[Ruth]

This is my first time reading one of your posts. And I have to say these all made me laugh. But my favorite was #3. So stinking cute!

And congrats for the Bloggie win!

[Michael]

#3 is going to make me giggle fir a week.