Mini Snippets
We're learning about Jewish feasts in homeschool this year. During our Havdalah service recently, we had a little, uh hem, incident. We were passing the spice Besamin around (a decorative spice box filled with fragrant spices).
The littles were completely delighted by the cinnamon fragrance (I couldn't agree more). Finally, it was my 9 yo dd's turn. She all but stuck her nose entirely inside the small box and inhaled so strongly that the powder from the cinnamon went right up her nose.
That, in turn, caused her to strongly and quickly exhale, which caused spices to fly all over the place. She began to rub her eyes, as she did get some of the powder in them. Immediately though, she saw the humor in the incident and said with great drama, "Spices all through my eyeballs. Nice way to end the Sabbath!"
Needless to say, our Sabbath ended in an unplanned fit of laughter. Oh, how that child cracks me up sometimes.
And another thing.
We were shopping at the thrift store recently and I couldn't have fit in more. You see, when we got home a subtle variation caught my eye. Glancing down, I gasped as I discovered I had worn two different shoes to shop in. Oh sure, they were both white, but one was canvas and the other leather. Hilljack!
And you just gotta love the nifty "unique" items for sale in a thrift store too. For example, I found Carl turning a container over and over, pondering the purpose as he passed it hand to hand.
"Um, honey? That's a breast pump container."
BAMM!
He threw that thing back into the bin so quickly that I'm sure the "PING!" was heard clear to the other end of the store.
Not any worse than my banschee scream though, when I realized the object that moi had been pawing was someone's old foot massager. Ewwwwwww!!! Why the heck didn't they just throw that crusty thing out? You can quit gagging now.
And of course, that trip would not have been complete without Reece spontaneously bellowing from the back of the store, "Mommy, pears make us poop." 'Cause we're all classy like that. High falutin', we are. CLAMPETTS!
Toni
10 comments:
Ha Ha Ha!!! Oh my!! I probably would have started sneezing too!! You crack me up!! The shoes and the breast pump was just too funny!
There are some items that I just don't understand why someone would give to the thrift store...like your teen-aged son's old tennis shoes. Even if they don't LOOK worn, the smell is enough to cause death in small humans. Toni, that is too funny about the mismatched shoes and the breast pump, but Reece's (I can just here his tiny yet loud voice) yelling the word "poop" across the store!
Too funny. I LOL about Carl dropping THAT item fast. My hubby would've done the same.
Kids say the darndest things!
This started me laughing and just picked up momentum. Thanks for the link back to your daughter's creative solution to her sore eyeball problem.
Hilarious...love that cinnamon comment and the shoe thing is priceless :)
~Rose
WOW!!! Carl should have bought that device and brought it down to the basement on Monday.
Toni, thank you for such a wonderful comment on my last post.
Tell your nine year old that I love the fact that she has a great sense of humor and I think that wasa wonderful way to end the sabbath. Laughter I am sure Jesus was laughing with all of you.
And the shoe incident all I can say about that is I am so glad I have other moms out there who are a lot like me.
Toni, thank you for such a wonderful comment on my last post.
Tell your nine year old that I love the fact that she has a great sense of humor and I think that wasa wonderful way to end the sabbath. Laughter I am sure Jesus was laughing with all of you.
And the shoe incident all I can say about that is I am so glad I have other moms out there who are a lot like me.
Yeah, I definitely don't understand certain donations. Like underwear and holey socks. And breast pump containers???? Umm....it's not like they're that expensive to begin with.
How about old, used hankies?? I've seen it before. Ugh!
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