Posted on 02/01/2006 8:18:20 PM PST by dutchess
LOL, thanks!
A fire fighter is working on the engine outside the station when he notices a little girl next door in a little red wagon with little ladders hung off the sides and a garden hose tightly coiled in the middle.
The girl is wearing a fire fighter's helmet. The wagon is being pulled by her dog and her cat.
The fire fighter walked over to take a closer look. "That sure is a nice fire truck," the fire fighter says with admiration.
"Thank you, Sir." the girl says.
The firefighter looks a little closer and notices the girl has tied the wagon to her dog's collar and to the cat's testicles.
"Little Partner," the firefighter says, "I don't want to tell you how to run your rig, but if you were to tie that rope around the cat's collar too, I think you could go faster."
The little girl replies thoughtfully, "You're probably right, but then I wouldn't have a siren."
Hi, Nan.
The knee is getting better every day. I see the doc again on the 16th and will find out then whether he thinks I should continue PT.
I hate not being able to spend much time here. Kindergarten homework is a lot tougher than when I was in school. :)
OMG ..... LOL.
That is so funny, Nan. I should call JustFrank inside. :)
Freddie . . . whose motto in his high school yearbook will be: "Way Too Young to Be This Damned Cynical." LOL.
Depends how you look at it.
*grin*
I try to discourage the rap but she still mixes it with her other favorites.
She likes to sing a "A Tisket, a Tasket" and some songs she learned in school. You should hear her sing The Star Spangled Banner. :) She messes up some of the words but she has the music down pretty good.
Do I sound like I'm bragging?
I love today's thread.
I should have been keeping a journal of Marissa's sayings. She is always coming up with a question that I'm not sure how to answer.
For some reason, she is fascinated with the medical dictionary. She found a picture of a pregnant lady and the baby. She looked at it for awhile and then said, " Oowee, he's naked!" I guess she thought that babies are born fully clothed.
I know what you mean about things being harder. That goes for everything. Miss Em just wears me out. I don't do anything except chase after her all day when she's here. I adore her, but there's no doubt it's more difficult than it would have been if I were even in my 50s or 60s. I guess a lot of it is mental. I have plenty of energy for my work, etc. but she makes me very tired. Still I wouldn't give up my time with her for anything.
You have my empathy. I don't know how you do what you do. Give that girl a big hug for me.
Like you, my time with Marissa is precious.
Her Mom is in a rehab center in Fresno. At this time, I worry about what will happen when she gets out. She says she will not just yank her kids out of their stable homes. I hope not because I'm not sure she will be a good mother for any extended period of time.
After my trips to DC in January and the trip there last year, I decided that something had to be done about the knee. I could not continue functioning that way. I'm not sure when I will have the left one taken care of. I want to wait as long as possible to make sure the right one is very stable.
Good point. I hope YOU weren't that cynical at the age of 6! ;-)
No way. I had good parents.
WHY GOD CREATED CHILDREN (AND IN THE PROCESS GRANDCHILDREN)
To those of us who have children in our lives, whether they are our own,grandchildren,nieces,nephews, or students...here is something to make you chuckle.
Whenever your children are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His own children.
After creating heaven and earth, God created Adam and Eve, And the first thing he said was "DON'T!"
"Don't what?" Adam replied.
"Don't eat the forbidden fruit."God said.
"Forbidden fruit? We have forbidden fruit? Hey Eve..we have forbidden fruit!"
"No Way!"
"Yes way!"
"Do NOT eat the fruit! " said God.
"Why?"
"Because I am your Father and I said so! "God replied, wondering why He hadn't stopped creation after making the elephants.
A few minutes later, God saw His children having an apple break and He was ticked!
"Didn't I tell you not to eat the fruit? " God asked.
"Uh huh," Adam replied.
"Then why did you? " said the Father.
"I don't know," said Eve.
"She started it! " Adam said.
"Did not! "
"Did too! "
"DID NOT! "
Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own.
Thus the pattern was set and it has never changed.
BUT THERE IS REASSURANCE IN THE STORY!
If you have persistently and lovingly tried to give children wisdom and they haven't taken it, don't be hard on yourself.
If God had trouble raising children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you?
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT!
1. You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next sixteen telling them to sit down and shut up.
2. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your own children.
3. Mothers of teens now know why some animals eat their young.
4. Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
5. The main purpose of holding children's parties is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.
6. We childproofed our homes, but they are still getting in.
ADVICE FOR THE DAY:
Be nice to your kids. They will choose your nursing home one day.
AND FINALLY:
IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF TENSION AND YOU GET A HEADACHE, DO WHAT IT SAYS ON THE ASPIRIN BOTTLE:
"TAKE TWO ASPIRIN" AND "KEEP AWAY FROM CHILDREN"!!!!!
LOL
So true!
You sure did. :-)
Well, that's it for me for tonight. God bless one and all.
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