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First of all...let me say THANK YOU to Balinda (http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/bcakstehomeschool), Carol, Kelly and Spunky (http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/spunkyhomeschool and friends) for coming to help me cover the booth for THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE at the CHEO convention!! Couldn't have done it w/out you! What blessings you ladies are!! Second...THANK YOU to my blog friends who stopped by!! Some of you didn't tell me your blog names...but you know who you are! lol I got to meet my friend "McBLOG" (http://www.homeschooblogger.com/mcblog) and she is JUST as sweet as I knew she would be! I even got to meet her dh of 10 years -- they spent their 10th at CHEO! Now THAT'S dedication! Third...THANK YOU to those of you who came to my workshops. I truly hope that you took something away from one of them that you can use. Everything I share in my workshops has worked for our family, so if it works for us, it can work for someone else. Fourth...After years of blogging, e-mails and a few business related phone calls, I FINALLY got to meet the famous Jen Ig (Igarashi) (http://jeneralities.com)!! She was at CHEO representing Rosetta Stone, so we FINALLY got to meet. I also got to meet 3 of her kids - Coie: driver extraordinair!, Emmiko: the Maze Queen, and Bo: boy wonder. I had so much fun meeting all of you. We'll have to do it again sometime. Now...if you go to Jen's blog you will see a picture of me in the midst of hysterical laughter. Fortunately for me, you can't quite tell that black, watery mascara is streaming down my face all the way to my chin! The reason is because, once again, my slight hearing problem got me into a situation that was funny and embassassing all at once. After a long day at CHEO on Friday night Balinda, Jen and her family, and Spunky and her friends and I went out to eat at Wendy's. BEFORE we even got there though, our little caravan lost Spunky at least 3 times! How that happened I'm still not quite sure 'cause we only had about 3 turns to make between the convention hall and the Wendy's that was by our hotel. Anywoo...once we all got there Balinda placed her order, then me, then Jen, then Spunky and crew. As Balinda had already ordered, she moved to the left so that I could place mine. Understand here that after a day in a noisy convention exhibition hall w/crowd noises and exhaust fans blowing my hearing was a little "worn," now the fans were blowing in the Wendy's kitchen behind the young man who was taking my order. NOT ONLY were those fans going...BUT the young man MUMBLED everything he said!! No joke...I'm going to see if I can come up w/SOME SORT of letter combination that will adequately give you an idea of just how this kid sounded TO ME...everything this kid said sounded like "fledda, fledda, flubba, fleedda, fledda?" You know, there's only 'so many' times a person will listen to you say, "excuse me? pardon me?" before they start getting irritated at you...but "FLEDDA, FLEDDA" is all I could understand this guy saying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So...the whole time I was standing in line waiting on my order, all I could do was TRY NOT to laugh, 'cause I KNEW that if I started there would be NO stopping! Once Balinda and I got seated I couldn't hold it in any longer! I laughed an embarrassingly long, loud time! There was no stopping it! While I was TRYING unsuccessfully to eek out some sort of explanation for why I was laughing Jen came over to sit down...so NOW I'm trying to explain to them, through uncontrolable giggles and snorts, what the kid at the checkout sounded like to me. THAT was not only when Balinda had to laugh herself right to the restroom (she was now laughing as hard as me!) but that was when Jen snapped her pic of me that's on her blog. It is God's great blessing to me, as I said earlier, that you can't see the mascara running down my face! Well...a great time was had by all. You'll have to stop by the other blogs and get their impressions of the weekend. Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<>< |
Poor Balinda...she had NO IDEA why I was looking at her w/a combination of "HELP ME!" and trying not to laugh! So all I could do was answer what I thought he was saying to me...."Fledda, Fledda, Flubba, Fled?" "Yes, I'll have a #1 w/no onions, please." "Fledda, fledda, fled." "Um...OK...here's a $20."Comments
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