Quotes from yesterday

So here are a couple of quotes from yesterday that made us LAUGH......not just chuckle, but LAUGH. That noise you heard yesterday, well, that was probably me laughing!

I got to go see my dear and precious friend yesterday.......Erin. Erin and I worked at Glorieta and became friends in 1998, or in the nineteens, as H says. I love Erin. She is just one of those friends that you can pick up with any time and she just gets me. Anyway, she lives in California, but her mom is in OK, so she was visiting them and we got to meet up. We were going to bring the whole crew to meet her for lunch, but A still had a fever, so I brought H. Now, remember that one-on-one time is very valuable around here. So H felt SO special to go to lunch.......she got to get a salad, not just something off of the kids menu, she got Erin's full attention, and she got to go shopping with me. She loves to shop and especially likes to shop for a bargain. She at clothes, and looks first thing at the price tag, then gasps.......either with excitement because it isn't very "spensive," or with disbelief because it is SO "spensive". She is so funny.

We were driving home from "the funnest day she ever had" when she saw a billboard.

H: Oh Trinity, we can't go to that restaurant.

Me: Why?

H: We don't like catfish.

Me: Ok.........

H: We don't like catfish and it says that all you can eat is catfish! I guess we just won't eat at that place, but Autumn and A can eat there cause they like catfish, but we just won't go when they go.............and she was still saying things about catfish but I was CRACKING UP!!!!!!

All you can eat catfish.............won't look at it the same!

Later that evening, we went out and did our little firecrackers. We had a lot of fun. I really don't know why we think of sparklers for the kids, because really.....why are we letting our little children wave around sticks that shoot out fire? Anyway, it was a lot of fun, then we came in to get some ice cream!

I was so hot and just sticky.....actually I wasn't even that hot, but really sticky, and kind of hot. I just couldn't get cool and feel clean. So I say, "This is why I like winter."

Side note: I really do like winter. I like it when it gets dark early so you know it's time to go to bed. I like it that the grass doesn't grow and you don't have to mow. I like it when it is cold outside and you cover up to get warm. I like it when the ice glazes over the trees. I like winter....love fall too.....love it when school starts and we get into a routine. Love football games even though I don't know anything about football really. Love caramel apples. Love the colors in the trees and such. Love fall.

Anyway, I said, This is why I like winter....you aren't all hot and sticky.

H says, Yeah, but you have to be careful for those big bugs.

Me: What? This is said through laughter of course.

H: Yeah, you know those bugs in the snow.

Me (well, me and Autumn): What bugs? (again, laughing)

H: Those bugs in the snow....they bite off your toes.

By this time I am just cracking up.....no holding it in. Autumn however, being the smart mother she is, gets it.............Autumn says: Oh, you mean FROSTBITE?

H: Yeah, that's it.

We just CRACKED up! I am just imagining her walking through the snow looking for those bugs that bite off your toes!