Category: life
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That’s A Great Aunt
Ah, the legacy continues of spoiling and/or teaching a younger generation (that is not your own offspring) to do something with real annoyance potential.
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Family Gathering Guess Who
Pretty sure something similar has happened to me with other parents assuming our kids knew each other but actually we had no reason to be talking.
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Food Dilemma
Thanks to my husband for the idea for this comic – though his vision was somewhat cooler with Pickle and Jam in an action-movie scene shooting stand-off type of situation.
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Good Old Morning
Believe it or not, I recall being rather thankful when the kids would manage to throw up directly on me, because it was so much easier to change my clothes than bedding.
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Candy Crushed
I mean, as long as they don’t decide to deliver “trick” when they were offered “treat”. She tried.
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Hell Yeah, Candy
Probably not the best enthusiastic response when in a church.
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Just Do It
I have started to experience these kinds of bizarre out-of-context sentences once again as my children have started playing Minecraft. “I covered my place in Creeper heads.” “Oh man, that’s creepy.” Yeah. It is creepy. As are the discussions about the pros and cons of killing livestock and villagers.
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Not a Trick Question
So…English. Lots of the names for animals for when they’re alive and needing to be tended are Germanic: Cow, Pig, Sheep. But the words for when they’re prepared as food are Frankish: Beef, Pork, Lamb. Probably because at one point the Frankish conquerors were the upper-class eating the food raised by the lower-class Germanic folk….
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From Your Mother
To be clear, this is more about predisposition to symptoms – when it comes to passing on an illness in our house it’s almost always from kid to parent and not the other way around.
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Majestically
Whenever I hear the word “majestic” I think of Prince John in Disney’s Robin Hood agreeing with his fortune telling: “Handsome, regal, majestic, ha ha. Lovable, yes, yes. Cuddly. Oh, that’s me to a T. It truly is.”