Oh, I Make Myself Laugh

Christmas Throwing Stars

Little Boy #2 loves origami...and he recently discovered this pattern in a book from the school library...there are a variety of names for it, including: German Stars, Swedish Stars, Moravian Stars, and Froebel's stars...anyhow, he was really excited when he found the pattern because it made him remember that i know how to make them...it took a while for him to catch on, but above are some of his results...

The Legend of Grindlemyre

Grindlewyse loved her son Grindlemyre. He was handsome, funny, and very, very intelligent. But he was also rude and unkind. Grindlewyse tried to teach him the ways of loving dragons, but as he became a teenager, Grindlemyre refused to listen. He became mean and spiteful, and did very hurtful things to his mother and to his siblings.

Grindlebane was an evil red dragon who delighted in stomping on things when he was mad at people. He was the brother of Grindlewyse. And it made Grindlewyse sad to see her son becoming more & more like his uncle every day. She tried extra hard to teach her son how to be a loving dragon. But, as always, Grindlemyre refused to listen.

One day, Grindlemyre didn’t get his way, so he went on a stomping spree, just like his uncle. He killed many, many flowers in Wentzville. He even had the nerve to kill the witch’s hydrangea bush not once, but twice.

The witch was very angry and when she found Grindlemyre, she attacked him with her sharp tongue and her little shovel. She fed his body to her hungry children, calling it chicken. And she enchanted his heart so that it became stone.

This stone she put in her garden, as a warning to all teenage dragons, that they are not as wise as they think. And that they are, in fact, quite tasty.

Copyright 6/1/2008

And the Lord Created Underwear

"And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thigh." Exodus 28:42

"They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the alter to minister in the holy place, that they do not incur iniquity and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and his descendants after him." Exodus 28:43

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not only that, but he said that priests had to wear them in church...

Clarity

apparently, the mom (aka me) was confused when Little Boy #2 said that he got detention because he was "playing with his teacher's stapler"...the mom should have interpreted the statement to mean that the little boy was firing staple-shaped projectiles at the class...the mom has learned a lesson about clarity...