1. I really like Huggies brand diapers, not because they're better in any way, but they have Tigger and Pooh on them. When my kid brings me a fresh diaper for baby sister, I say, "Ah man, this one already has POOH on it! I need another one."
2. Today I threatened my 3 year old that I would shmear his brains on toast if he didn't get out of my bathroom and let me shower in peace.
3. Does anyone have a rototiller I can borrow next week?
4. I've been holding this back to not offend readers (because I die a little inside when I lose a subscriber/facebook friend/blog follower), but I am against the whole "banish the r-word" thing you see everywhere. Sure, don't say it, teach your kids it's not appropriate, but mounting a battalion against a word? That just makes it a better word to use when you want to hurt someone. Besides, my little brother was "special needs" and I heard that word used on him regularly (maybe I've been desensitized). He adopted a "forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do" attitude about the antagonists in his life. We need to teach our kids (and ourselves) not to let others' labels define who we are, who our children are. Everyone's going to get called names ... instead of fighting a word, fight the tendancy to get offended (especially by proxy), or the desire to control everyone, or the dream that you can protect your child from everything. A parent's job is to prepare their child to live in the world, not protect them from the world. Plus, free speech. We all get to tolerate each others' stupidity and have the right to be stupid. That's America, baby.
5. It's Fun Fun Friday, my favorite day of the week AND the beginning of Spring Break AND General Conference Weekend (8 hours of church on TV in PJ's). Plus, I get to make a cake for husband's belated birthday extravaganza (come over, cake will be served), AND at the end of Spring Break, it's EASTER (celebrate the resurrection of the Savior of the world by filling your gut with chocolate rabbit sculptures, hard boiled eggs, and marshmallow chickens. Amen, and again I say, AMEN). Also, I think I feel better (but that could be the caffeine IV talking).
6 Brilliant Bits of Inspiration:
More random thoughts for you:
1. Taste of Home's website has an idea for making a sunflower cake where the yellow petals are actually peeps.
2. I have a rototiller and you're welcome to borrow it- but Tate's Rents or Home Depot may be cheaper and faster than driving to Nampa.
3. If something is delayed it can be said to be "retarded." When I don't water the peppers I retard their growth (unless they give up the fight and die- that's no longer retarded, it's just dead).
3. It would be funny to deliberately copy a Cake Wrecks cake for Greg. I'm thinking the one of the baby coming out of the mother's belly (I hope it's her belly button anyway) would be really fun for him.
Three great suggestions, thank you *smirk* (the r-word, indeed) (sorry, too far? I never know.)
If people are waging war against the r-word, then what about all of the other bad words out there? Just unnecessary. I mean, I tend to correct people when they say r-word but please, really. Sure, it is important to make sure that people aren't using hateful speech, but there are a lot of messed up things in the world. Kids also say "Pimp" and that everythign is "gay" and "gaytarded" and whatever else. Man, a kid once called me a "f***ing custard" a 5 year old! Fight against that!
Okay love your post!
My little comment has to do with the "r" word...at first I didn't even know what "r" word you were talking about til I saw "special needs" -ah ha!
So being the mother of a SN son, I will tell you the "R" word is alive and well in our home...Dean calls us "retarded" all the time!
And we die laughing. And it's just an adjective. EVERYONE behaves retarded once in awhile...There are lots of other words that should be banned before that one is...weird that people find offense in that?!
that's my 2 cents!
Wow, you actually get spring break and Easter together. Around these parts it was a month ago. I think it's funny, I live in an area where I swear there are two churches for every person, and yet the schools are so PC they don't recognize any holidays, only seasons. They even called Valentine's Day a "frienship cellebration". Barf.
I'm with you on the "r" word. I'm all for teaching my kids to live in the world and not for teaching the world to live around my kids...but then they aren't actually retarded...
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