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If you were going to only stay for 3 innings of a game, the game on Saturday between the Angels and the Rangers would be the best game to go to.
Amy won a drawing contest that gave our family free entrance to that game. We are not baseball fans, so we decided we would just stay for a few innings and go out to dinner.
A while back, a friend complained to me that she felt taken advantage of by her neighbor. The neighbor’s work prevented her from picking up her daughter from school a couple days a week. She asked my friend to help her. What began as a small favor to pick her daughter up turned out to be a regular chore.
We were playing a game called the Unspoken Word, played the same way as Taboo.
Mike: What you need to go up.
Audrey: Oxygen tank!
The word was ladder 🙂
Two things made watching Ratatouille yesterday very special.
One, my whole family went to watch it together – me with the best husband in the world and the best three children in the world. My husband’s movie of choice is usually action and sci fi. Rated G movies are never on his list. But he came along and I did not see him fall asleep once. That says a lot about Ratatouille. And that my teenagers chose to see it with us instead of with their friends made me really happy.
Finally, a rated G movie! An animated movie that is truly for children without hidden adult humor or innuendos (that is why I didn’t want to see Shrek.)
Amy and I were at Petsmart looking at the mouse cages and didn’t see anything cute about them. So how can Pixar make a rat look adorable? It’s the eyes, the blue fur, and the cute personality of Remy that makes it possible for a rat to be an endearing main character.
Three highlights of the movie for me:
The irony of a street rat, usually considered dirty and carrying all kinds of diseases, who does not walk on all 4’s to keep his hands clean for eating.
“If you are what you eat, then I want to eat only what is good.”
The family of rats came to Remy’s rescue despite disagreeing with what he was doing. “We do not cook, but we are family.”
My review: 5 stars, no need to worry about inappropriate themes for children or teens, totally entertaining with good morals.
On Sunday, I asked a pharmacist at our church to talk to the kids about taking care of their health.
She said, “After you blow your nose, see if the stuff is clear or green.”
A boy said, “Why would I want to look at my snot?”
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I said, “What’s the matter? Why won’t you do the craft?”
The crying boy said, “Because that boy won’t share the glue with me.”
It broke my heart. I felt like going to that kid and teach him a lesson about sharing.
But sometimes life isn’t like that. We can’t change people to be the way we want them to be.
So I said, “Be patient with people who are mean to us. That boy is still learning from God how to share. Don’t let one person get you down.”
That was a lesson for me to learn.
One of those forwards 🙂
Subject: 25 years of marriage
WHEN I WAS MARRIED 25 YEARS, I TOOK A LOOK AT MY WIFE ONE DAY AND SAID,
‘HONEY, 25 YEARS AGO WE HAD A CHEAP APARTMENT, A CHEAP CAR, SLEPT ON A SOFA
BED AND WATCHED A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV, BUT I GOT TO SLEEP EVERY
NIGHT WITH A HOT 25-YEAR-OLD BLOND.’
NOW WE HAVE A $500,000.00 HOME, A $45,000.00 CAR, A NICE BIG BED AND A
PLASMA SCREEN TV, BUT I’M SLEEPING WITH A 50-YEAR-OLD WOMAN. IT SEEMS TO ME
THAT YOU ARE NOT HOLDING UP YOUR SIDE OF THINGS.’
MY WIFE IS A VERY REASONABLE WOMAN. SHE TOLD ME TO GO OUT AND FIND A HOT
25-YEAR-OLD BLONDE, AND SHE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT I WOULD ONCE AGAIN BE
LIVING IN A CHEAP APARTMENT, DRIVING A CHEAP CAR, SLEEPING ON A SOFA BED
AND WATCHING A 10-INCH BLACK AND WHITE TV.
AREN’T OLDER WOMEN GREAT? THEY REALLY KNOW HOW TO SOLVE YOUR MID-LIFE
CRISES
Within an approximately 2-mile stretch of La Puente Road in Walnut, there are 4 Protestant churches. At least 2 of those churches share their facilities with another church. So that’s 6 churches within walking distance of one another.
Some people look at this and see it as Christians being divided. Why can’t all these churches all get together?
Is this an optical illusion?
Did our bunny Smokey shrink in size to be smaller than a zucchini?
Or is the zucchini bigger than a regular-sized bunny?
It’s a giant zucchini! This is the one from my friend’s garden that we barbecued. It was delicious.
Had one of the best days yesterday:
Spent a few hours with my daughters and a couple of friends at church painting posters and backdrops for the upcoming Vacation Bible School. Looks really good!
I felt brave and just jumped into the pool without hesitating. That was mostly because I was rushed for time, but it felt good.
Met a very nice couple who was referred to me by a friend to sell their house.
Friends, family, church, summer, business…all good.