Two -isms

This is a combined girls-ism --

We were at the dinner table last night and I was telling the kids that I had friends coming over to watch Grey's Anatomy.

F: Who's Atomy?

me: what?

F: You said Grace and Atomy

me: No, Grey - like the color. Grey's Anatomy.

G: What is anatomy?

me: Well, uh... anatomy is the study of the body. There was a guy who wrote a book about the human body and his last name was Gray. So it is Gray's Anatomy book. People going to school to be a doctor study it. {no, I didn't go into grEy vs grAy...}

G: I bet Mrs C used to be a doctor before she was a gym teacher... cause she knows a lot about the body.

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Still at the dinner table last night... yes, out conversations range this much in a 20 minute meal... doesn't yours?

J: What's the difference between crocodiles and alligators?

So, I go into a quick snout shape speech, using my arms to show v vs u shaped snout. I talk about the fact that when you look at the crocodile, you can see lots of teeth sticking out whereas if you look at the alligator, you only can see the teeth from the top jaw. And here comes G...

G: Oh yeah. like SpongeBob.

I could hardly stop laughing ;-)

Tonight's Thanks

1- Got the sidewalk shoveled this morning, so Sam would go outside with us (well, without having to be on my hip the whole time)! Tomorrow we may build a fort.

2- Another snow day tomorrow means we have more time to work on Faith's Valentine's Day mailbox for school on Thursday.

3- Barefoot Moscato :-)

4- Domino's for dinner means I didn't have to cook. I love their $5 one topping pizzas!

5- It is 13 degrees outside and I am toasty warm in a 70 degree house. That is definitely something to be thankful for tonight!

Thankfuls

1- Two hour delay in the morning for the kids :-)

2- Almost 2 inches of snow on the ground already and supposed to keep snowing until noon! I love the snow -- if it's going to be cold, might as well have snow to look pretty!

3- moved furniture tonight. I think I like my dining room better now... I think.

4- read with the kids LOTS tonight -- because they got to stay up a little later (see #1). I love Flat Stanley books!

5- Finished People of the Book tonight -- and the library called to tell me that the book I requested is in. Looks like I will be making a trip to the library tomorrow... unless I'm snowed in!

Eating my words...

So, recently I wrote that I try to never 'vent' on here. I really try to keep everything positive. I do my thankfuls, I write my kid-isms, etc. Well, I'm eating those words... as I vent again. So here's your warning --- don't read this one if you don't want to read my vent.

America. I love it. I do.

But (you knew it was coming, right?)... why is everybody wearing their nerves on their sleeves nowadays? Superbowl commercials are what's getting me now. When did the American people start needing somebody to tell them what we can handle on TV? Really?!? And I'm not talking about everything. I appreciate not having to worry about somebody dropping the f* bomb or engaged in adult activities while my kids are watching normal TV. I do. I appreciate it. However, I am not really a fan of censorship on IDEAS.

This goes both ways. NOW protested Focus on the Family's "Celebrate Life" commercial; CBS denies ManCrunch's gay dating website commercial. Really? Really?!? Because the American public is too stupid to decide for themselves whether or not they like/need/care anything about/etc those ideas or services.

Maybe I'm the only one that this bothers. On Facebook, etc... people jumped quickly on the "support Tebow's commercial" bandwagon. These same people would be horrified if a Planned Parenthood commercial was aired. Anybody who knows me, knows that I am very VERY personally pro-life. Seeing a tastefully done Planned Parenthood commercial (as the Celebrate Life commercial was done very tastefully) wouldn't make me jump up and change my opinion on this. Is that NOW's fear? That seeing Tebow as the spokesperson for this campaign will put women's lib back 50 years? What little faith the National Organization of WOMEN seems to have in those women. (PS - NOW has linked with GoDaddy.com to host an anti-Tebow website... hmmm... because scantily clad waifs of women advertising GoDaddy advances the women's lib movement SO much...).

This leads me to another... the format of Facebook has changed. All the status comments are very negative... "I hate the new format", "this stinks", etc. I even saw one that said something like "if I wasn't on here all the time, I'd stop using it." America -- if you don't like it, don't use it. If you don't like ManCrunch's dating service... don't use it. If you don't like Focus on the Family's pro-life stance, you have a CHOICE. Crazy how that works.

Sam-ism

Tonight, once Sam and I finished dinner (while we were waiting on the big three to finish), I got a flip/flash card book out. It is filled with wonderful pictures of sea creatures. I was flipping through, showing Sam each picture and telling him what each animal was.

I flip to a picture of a lion fish.

Me: Sam, what does a lion fish do?

{I fully expected him to make his fishy face}

Sam: ROAR!

Well, lions do roar :-)