Merry Christmas!
Author: Shane
Quote Monday has strange notions
Evie: “Ollie, someone colored on this book.”
Ollie: “I didn’t do it.”
Evie: “Well I didn’t do it. Aunt Anna likes to color on lots of things, maybe she did it.”
Me: “Ollie look, there are pickle ornaments!”
Ollie, pointing to a Chicago Bean ornament: “And look, there are schnozcumber ornaments!”
It does, admittedly, look like a schnozcumber.
A co-worker received the following email: “Congratulations! You are the lucky winner of the Microsoft lottery! Since this is not a virus or spam, please click on the attachments to register…”
I guess they figured if you’re dumb enough to believe in the “Microsoft lottery”, you might also be dumb enough to believe *anything* you’re told.
Evie: “One of the things I like about a funeral, is you can drive through red lights.”
Winter, In Pictures
Me and the kids, ready to see the Nutcracker
Abominable Snow Ollie
Time for sledding
Snow Angel
Snow Angel
Reasons My Kid is Crying
Sara pointed me to this pretty fantastic article, which is really a “best of” from the website “Reasons my Son is Crying“.
Basically, kids will cry about anything. I mean anything. Anything from “someone else was walking on the sidewalk” to “I wouldn’t let her wipe my butt“. And the only thing better than not having to be the one to deal with the kid when he’s crying, is turning him into a cruel Internet meme.
Kids crying over something dumb happens so many times per day (per HOUR) that it’s hardly even worth remarking on. If you are a parent, you know this to be true. So most of the time you don’t stop to think about how truly ridiculous the whole thing is, not to mention the fact that most of us aren’t cruel enough to grab a camera a take a picture of them in their moment of misery (much less post it on the Internet).
Oh wait, yes I am. I give you the Reason My Daughter is Crying #1:
“Hey, is it a little quiet in here?”
Me: “What are you up to in here?”
Evie: “I found the perfect place for my tattoo!”
Me: “You’re going to have to go to choir practice like that you know.”
Evie: “…”
Evie: “I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.”
Here’s to learning a lesson about consequences!
Shane Halbach 