Back Away From The NTJ

Bethany and Mom, my fellow female NTJ'ers. We're no joke, so take heed.

Quote Of The Day

(say the following in a cockney accent in your head, sounds even better)

Sometimes in life you meet people who inspire you, sometimes in life you meet people YOU want to inspire, and sometimes you just want to fuckin' stab yourself. - Jamie Oliver

Don't miss Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution on abc. Best show on television. Find season 1 online and watch it as well.

Mission Impossible

Dear @ericmoze,

Your mission this morning, should you choose to accept it, is to find and destroy the bumblebee in Ava's bedroom. If you cannot find it, you must convince her that it has escaped her room, and convince her well enough that she will stop sleeping on Colson's bedroom floor.

Godspeed, my friend.

(This message will self-destruct in 5......4.........3.......)

Immersion Shmersion

I may have mentioned before, but my children are obsessed with Veggie Tales. There is one episode called Madame Blueberry something or other. In it, the vegetables all speak with French accents, which Ava can mimic perfectly. Sometimes she'll speak with that accent all day long.

I was telling Eric about her French accent last night, and Ava heard me. She wouldn't do the accent for Eric, but she ran out of the room and came back with these papers. I call them RoseAvaStone. French 101. You just say these words, and make your voice go from low to high.

Try it! It's fun...

What Dreams May Come

Back in business!

Last night the kids, Eric and I were laying around talking about dreams we've had. Cole told us about a dream he had where he was holding onto a bunch of balloons flying through the sky. He ran into a flock of geese and the balloons all popped.

As he was falling, he remembered he had a gun that would shoot out your wishes. So you would pull the trigger, and say what you wanted and it would come true. So Cole pulled the trigger and said, "I want to be safe!"

Then Cole says to us, "It must have heard me wrong, because I turned into a safe".

:)

At which point Zachary, who'd been trying to tell his dreams (which were just stories he'd make up on the spot) to no avail because we were making him wait for his turn, ran into the hallway to pout. When I yelled out and asked him what was wrong he yelled back, "No one is getting me ANY attention!!!!!!!"

P.S, he'd already had his moment in the sun earlier in the night, when at the dinner table he had us all convinced that the last time he was at my mother's house alone, she'd caught a squirrel with her bare hands and let Zachary pet it. He really had us going until I said let's call gramma and have her tell us the story. He said, "Tricked ya!" then ran away to hide, half embarrassed, half proud of himself.

Cole's been selling things in our neighborhood again. Apparently his crystals are on sale, in case you're interested.

Ava is like those trial artists who draw pictures of a court case when cameras aren't allowed in.