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I am pretty sure my Big Toe on my right foot is broken... or at least fractured. It's a toe so I'm not going to bother going to the doc just to have them tell me to "buddy tape it" or to keep it elevated. (I've broken my pinky toe twice before) I have a nasty black and purple bruise on the outside part of my toe  towards the bottom.

This is funny...

My hubby and I were making dinner together. I was making Sesame Chicken for he and I and he was making beef hot dogs and mac 'n cheese for the kids. I was standing in the middle of the kitchen near hubby when I hear him yell, "Move your foot!"

It was to late... the package of frozen hot dogs hit my big toe.

It hurt, I almost cried, my whole big toe burned on the inside. It swelled up on the the side of my toe and along the bottom. Weird, because the frozen hot dog package hit the top of my toe. My hubby felt terrible for accidently dropping the frozen dogs on my toe.

Oh well, this has been giving me an excuse to put my feet up and knit!

Kelly - I had painted my toesies days prior to this happening so my metalic neon green toenails go great with my black and blue bruise! ***snicker*** They are also better to look at while my feetsers are elevated while I knit!

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*Smoochers*

Like my hat?  I've been debating painting my toe nails to match. (teeee heeeeee heeeeee, Kelly!)

I haven't totally disappeared from the blogsphere. I try to pop in here when I can. I've been out enjoying the summer with my family. =)

(I've lost 8 pounds with all the hiking, camping and gold prospecting that we've been doing so far!)

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As I am driving to the store at about the same time that the public schools are getting out and the yellow banana's school busses are full of children, my son says, "Mom, I don't want to go to school, but I wouldn't mind seeing what it is like for one day."

I'm thinking there is a very slim chance of this happening so I respond by telling him that we could have a "school at home" day.

My son says almost excitedly, "Oooh, does that mean we can drive around the neighborhood without seatbelts!?"

My son cracks me up!

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My hubby was downstairs watching TV. It wasn't very loud. I was upstairs and recognized the transporter sounds from Star Trek.

I come downstairs saying, "You know your a nerd when you can hear the Enterprise transporters in another room!" It happened to be one of my favorite episodes too. The one when they go back in time to the 20s. Good stuff!

I crack myself up!

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Things that have or do make me guffaw. (I've always liked that word, now I can actually use it!)

• When my boys tell a gorilla at the zoo, while it picks its nose that they do that too!
• My oldest sons witty remarks. He rocks when it comes to timing!
• My hubbies Elmo impersonation.
• When our dog throws his tug toy down the stairs, runs down to get it, then brings it back upstairs and then throws his tug toy down again. He does this often. It cracks me up each time!
• Being tickled
• When my 3 year old laughs. His laugh is so funny that I can't control bursting out in laughter with him.
• I will admit to laughing at others when they hurt themselves. Com'on, we all have done it!! We laugh with them and not at them, right?
• A good joke... and I mean, it has to be really funny for me to spontaneously roll with laughter though!
• Funny, and sometimes embarrasing stories told from other people.
• My hubbies humor
• My kids! Who needs entertainment?

I'll probably end up thinking of other things that cause me to GOL (Guffaw Out Loud)

What are some things that make you burst out into laughter?

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Snack: Applesauce

Upon coming downstairs from after nursing the baby, my four children were all eating applesauce...

...they were sucking it up with straws! Where did they learn that?

My oldest said that he figured applesauce was thinner than a shake so it would be cool to drink it with a straw.  He was right.

*Whisper* Jello... my mom showed my kids how to 'drink' Jello with a straw.  Hats off to my mom - your the best and you've taught me well.  She taught me to drink Jello with a straw too, when I was little... and when my mom was little her dad taught her. Tradition!

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Oh what a hoot! If you like Star Trek and Monty Python go to my other blog to see what gem I found on that 'tube' site.

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Coversation between "Peanut" my 5 year old and his Grandma (my mother).

Recenly, Peanut spent a week with my mother. On one of those days she took him to a sub shop for lunch.

Per my mother.                                                                                                                                                             Very seriously Peanut asks, "Grandma, do you have eyes at the back of your head?"

Grandma, "No."

Peanut, "Well, mom does."

Later that day they went over to my brother's house. My mother tells my brother and his friend about what Peanut said at the sub shop. Then my brother and his friend told Peanut that all girls and moms have 'eyes at the backs of their heads.' Peanut responded with an, "Oh."

I just love what kids can come up with! I think that conversation came about because one night as I was tucking Peanut into bed he told me that he had 'eyes at the back of his head' and I told him, "Wow, I do too!"

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Yesterday, I would often look downstairs and see our dog, Starbuck, eating something at the bottom of the stairs. Since he likes to grab a mouthful of food, then take it near the stairs to eat I figured he was eating his dog food. I was wrong.

This morning I come downstairs and notice that he was eating a dog treat. Puzzled, I stood nearby so that I could watch him. The silly dog went into the pantry, stuck his nose in the dog treat bag and pulled out 2 dog bones! I approached him while he was chewing and I tell ya, this dog was in treat heaven! He looked up at me and just started hopping around and wagging his tail like it was going to fall off. Oh, it was a hoot!

I had to, sadly, move the treat bag in the pantry to a more 'safe' place. I guess he figured since the kids go in there all the time to grab a snack, why couldn't he?

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"Mom, I love cream uf wheat. It make me grow strong and tall like a tree!" said my three year old while showing me his muscles.

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My hubby tucked the boys into bed tonight. After tucking them in he comes upstairs, sits on the couch and says with a smile, "I asked Peanut what mommy taught him today. Peanut said that he learned 'www dot bionicles dot com' and there he learned about bad guys and good guys."

Peanut is 5 years old by the way.

Well, obviously www dot bionicles dot com was the highlight of his day. He and his big brother (10 yo) read some of the comics on that site after they did some formal learning.

Math and phonics aren't that big of a deal when it comes to good guys vs. bad guys, ya know.

I am always amazed at what comes out of the mouth of a child.

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Boo boo says, "Mom, can you imagine what would happen if we wore moon boots and had rubber floors?"

I then remembered my light grey and pink moon boots I had when I was little... then came back to reality and laughingly I said, "We'd need rubber ceilings!"

My son has quite the humor so him and I had a total belly bustin laugh-a-thon discussion on what if... (I even snorted a few times)

The dog would have a great time thowing his toys around and then trying to catch them.

Dodge ball anyone?

Rubber balls would be a hoot for sure!

When you fell backwards in your chair, you'd come back up again.

When jumping on the bed and you fell off... back up ya go!

Sitting on floor + passing gas = lift off! (Or it would at least make a funny noise!)

Throwing "Whoppers" on the floor and having them bounce into your mouth.

I think my son got the idea from a commercial we saw yesterday during the Bronco vs. Raiders game.

Go Broncos!!!

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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." ~e.e. cummings

 

Go ahead.... laugh... laugh real hard!

Get a belly roller going...

make your children look at you funny because your laughing at the computer again...

go ahead...

I dare ya!

Start laughing....

 

 

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 Last night as I was nursing Cup Cake, when my three year old came over, points and asks, "Is this one 'Cup Cake's' food and this one her drink?"

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Remember going to camp or having sleepovers and playing "Grosser than Gross?"

We'd take turns thinking of things...well.. grosser than gross.

Yesterday our family decided to all go to one of the local "Super Store's." You know those stores where you can buy everything you need in one stop... clothes, shoes, household stuff, lightbulbs, get your tires changed and groceries?

We all walk in and we stop just after the entrance so we can put two of our kiddo's in the cart. My two oldest children look over at all the packages of iced sugar cookies decorated with July 4th themes...

I hear, "Mom, look!!"

"What, dear?"

"Look it's a mouse eating a cookie!"

My hubby and I get closer to take a look, and low and behold there was this mouse chomping away at one of the cookies, IN the package!!! (I've seen enough mice in my life and I've even fed many mice to snakes...so no screaming or fitting from me.) I stand in front of the "bonus" in the box so that other people wouldn't see it while my hubby went to go get someone to dispose of the cookie filled mouse. (Half of a cookie was already eaten!)

While standing in the check-out lane my husband comments on buying their cookies and get a free 'pet!'

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"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century." ~ Dame Edna Everage

I love to laugh! Sometimes when in a rolling laughter I've been known do snort.

Do you snort when you laugh?

I love it when my kids laugh too. Some of their laughter in itself is hilarious!

Isn't it wonderful how laughter is contagious?

Spread some laughter!

LISTEN

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"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day." ~ John A. Wheeler

Strange - The underware gnomes didn't steal any socks today!

Strange - My 2 yo didn't draw on any walls today!

Strange - I was able to read for an hour without distractions!

Strange - A local praise and worship radio called me today and I was afraid to answer it... I didn't want to be on the air! They left a message and all is cool. Shew!

Strange - What's that smell???

Strange - My daughter didn't scream when she saw a spider!

Strange - I crave licorice!

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The other night at the dinner table our discussion went like this...

JD (oldest son) asks, "How is this soup made?" (Egg Drop Soup)

Me, "With chicken broth, eggs...blah, blah, blah and if your not careful when you pour the eggs in then it will overflow..."

JD asks with puzzled look on his face, "Chicken broth? Do they milk a chicken for that?"

This is when my hubby and I break out in rolling laughter! My son was laughing too because I can just picture in his mind someone trying to 'milk' a chicken. (Chickens are funny looking to begin with...!) By now all 6 of us are laughing. (We laugh a lot at the dinner table... everyone should eat meals together at the table.)

I then had to tell my son how to make chicken broth.... by boiling a chicken.

Speaking of chickens I have another dinner conversation. This was with my Grandma, Grandpa, Great Aunt, My mother and I. We were all traveling together to California. The dinner took place at a buffet in "Excalaber" in Las Vegas.

We all sat in a round booth in a corner and my Grandpa and Great Aunt started telling stories about the two of them growing up. We all laughed so hard at their stories!

This is how I remember the chicken story.

Grandpa went on about the chickens they had and how they hated having to feed them. Their mom had told them to go feed the chickens. My Great Aunt and Grandpa came up with this clever idea to pour cement in the coop with the chickens because they thought that if the chickens stood in one place that they would eat better, plus they wouldn't have to chase them around....

Unfortunatly the chickens didn't survive.

Mom, if you read this... please share about how you remember that story. To this day I can hear Grandpa trying to tell it without laughing. I can still picture those chickens up to their feathers in cement.

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I "think" I have found the secret to getting a child to eat at least ONE brussel sprout!

Dinner time:  When Daddy is at work at his PT job the kids and I have simple dinners.

The food: I made the kids chicken, corn and chocolate pudding for dessert.

I made myself spinach raviolli and brussel spouts. I like brussel sprouts with butter once in a HUGE while when I crave them.

I put a small brussel sprout on each of my childrens plate. (I think children and adults should try things.) My 2yo and 4yo ate them just fine, but the looks on their faces conveyed apprehension. I think they were grateful that there were not anymore of those green balls on their plates!

As I was getting myself some milk my 7yo daughter says, "Mom, these green things taste good in bar-b-que sauce!"

My thoughts... Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwww!

So I then encouraged her with, "Great! I'm glad you like it that way! Would you like some more?" hehehhehheheheh

Her response, "No!"

Then my 9yo son says, "Hey mom, these taste good with ketchup!"

Again.... Eeeeeeewwwwwwwwww!

"Great son! Would  you like some more?"

Again.. "No!"

I'm just thankful they tried them.