Funnies from around the house

I’ve gotten slack about writing down the things the boys say thinking, “Oh, I’ll remember this one.”  Unfortunately, by the time David gets home from work, I can’t even remember what someone said two hours prior.  I think it’s called occupied brain space.  So I’m back to scrawling the gist of things on notebook paper.  That way when I’m retired and have “absolutely nothing to do today” just like the two people at the grocery store yesterday who insisted the other should go first, I’ll be able to hang out and read old quotes and remember these days that are brim full and running over.

Adam’s Math problems are growing more complicated now that he’s hit fourth grade.  The other day he had a long addition string that looked something like this:   31 + 14 + 27 + N = 90.  He was laboring over it when he looked up and said, “Do you know how I think of it?  It’s like straining out the evidence.”

Stinkbugs are flooding our house, just as they probably are every other house in the country.  If there’s an area that is still unaffected, let me know.  I may want to move there.  Unless you’re further North than I am.  I declared war with a tissue in hand when Adam piped up from behind me, “Be careful, Mommy.  These bugs engage in chemical warfare.”

Liam was sitting on my lap, coloring, when he reached toward the jar of colored pencils rooting through toward the aqua one.  “I think I’ll choose awkward,” he said.  If only I didn’t choose that color so often inadvertently. 🙂

But the funniest QOTD happened not at our house, but while Liam and I shopped at T J Maxx.  I rounded an endcap where a twenty something male store associate engaged in animated conversation with a female shopper in her fifties.  “………And they had one of those ovulating fans ……..”  He didn’t miss a beat, but I heard little else as I shot around the next corner.

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