Our Day

We had lunch with Mamaw today. Once a month or so we’ll pick her up at work and go to McDonalds. The kids always look forward to her “Mamaw bag” of goodies. It started out as something to keep the kids occupied while waiting for their food. Now Mamaw takes great pride in packing it with fun activities and surprises for the kids. Today she forgot the bag. In a fit of creative desperation she put together a box of goodies from her office and proudly told the kids they could play office today. This was probably the best non-bag Mamaw bag. We sat in McDonalds long after our food was gone. The kids happily stamped “Credit Approved” and “August 23 2006” on computer paper, colored with highlighters, played with rubber fingers, and made “staple pin” (paper clip) necklaces. From what I remember about working in an office, that’s a pretty good representation of work life, isn’t it? ;)

This afternoon we had a DirectTv contractor over to do some work. To be kind, I’ll just say this guy looked like a redneck relative of Larry the Cable Guy. We couldn’t have the kids in the same room with him while he was working for fear someone would tell him he shouldn’t be showing his butt because it’s a private part. Anyway, he was very slow and seemed to be here forever. I went ahead and made a quick dinner because we had plans this evening. This is the conversation that occurred as I put dinner on the table:

Tyler: What are we having for dinner?

Me: Chicken strips.

Tyler: Chicken strips?

Danielle: But I don’t like chicken lips.

Cable Guy: Umm. Chicken lips are good.


Tonight Danielle was going potty and singing the word “pen*s” over and over again. (In case you’re wondering, I don’t spell out the whole word because I don’t want people to pull up my blog when they Google that word!) When she was done we had our recurring conversation about boys having them and girls not. Then we talked about who was a boy and who was a girl. She was holding a stuffed animal and asked, “Is this a boy or a girl?” Jokingly I said, “Check.” She laughed and turned the animal upside down. She did some checking and said, “It has a butt.” She paused and added, “Oh! It has a chinis.” (China-a+is=chinis) It was so cute I just had to squeeze her.