This is going to be somewhat of a random post because there is no guarantee I can get these in the right order... so bear with me..
In church Sunday, when we started to sing a hymn, Sam says to me, "Don't like... everybody." My guess is he didn't like everyone singing... but I loved the timing.
Also in church on Sunday during the children's sermon, Russ was explaining how we should be appreciative of our teachers. Sam interrupts him to say, "I I I I I like mine teacher." Kudos Susan. Well done.
The other day, Justin went out to the back yard to do something and didn't have his shirt on. Sam went out after him. When he saw Justin, he says, "Daddy, why you naked?" Justin said, "I'm not naked. I just don't have a shirt on." Sam then says, "Daddy, put you shirt ON!"
Sometimes I make random noises while cleaning (to entertain myself... distract myself from the awfulness of cleaning...whatever). So tonight while Sam was in another room playing with a toy, I said, "Boom shacka lacka lacka boom!" About two seconds later, we hear Sam say, "Boom chocolate milk." The kid loves his milk.
Tonight while reading Sam his bedtime story, "Llama Llama Red Pajama", which we have read a million times easily, I decide to start it by saying, "This is Llama Llama Red Pajama" as read in a Hispanic accent." I then went into my best Hispanic accent (which we all know is pure crap). I got four pages in and after each page, Sam would say, "Momma stop that." I finally read it normally and he ceased to tell me to stop that. He isn't a fan of my accents either.
And lastly, on a sweet note, my son likes to pray for people. I just love that. We pick someone (or many people or things... depends on the night) to pray for before bed. Tonight he picked his daddy. It is just the sweetest thing to hear him pray for anyone, but especially his daddy. (Before we get wrapped up in the awesomeness that is a son praying for his daddy, Sam has been known to pray for cookies, books, toys, swimming, etc).
These are just some of the many things I will get a kick out of reading many years from now. And hopefully Sam does too.
SHOUT OUT TO GROWN UP SAM!!! ;-)
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Sam drove Momma to the sauce
Disclaimer: blogging from the phone because I can't make myself tear Justin away from his incredibly boring looking game on the laptop.
So today, the air conditioning went out on my car. With humidity and the sweater blouse I wore to work today, that made my body an approximate temperature of 475•. So the drive home on the interstate with the other people eager to leave the city was already going to be awesome.
Then my son decided that yelling, "Momma! Mom! Ah! MoooooommmmmAAAAH!!!" would be most super fun. All the way home. In a sweat box designed for getting state secrets out of very well trained spies.
So when I got home, I was frazzled. Justin was nice enough to take Sam outside and play ladder ball while I cooked so I could destress.
Until...
(my interpretation of sam's wailing)
"momma I will die right now if I don't get raisins! Raisins are the fruit of life and you hate me because you refuse to give me them before dinner!!!"
"momma how dare you put salad on my plate?!?!? I will surely die from the rotten ass this will surely give me from being in my vicinity!"
"mom, you ungrateful slut! How dare you eat your dinner when i clearly need my third cup of juice in the last ten minutes! Surely you can tell I'm dehydrated!!!"
Ughhhhhhh....
After we settled the great juice saga of 2012, we agreed to read books. And that was for realsies super fun. He finds "goodnight gorilla" hilarious which I then find hilarious.
Where is the true hilarity of the night you ask? When my son was pretending to cook on the big stove and I encouraged him to play on his stove. He goes over to the stove and says, "oh!"
To what? He remembered that no less than last Saturday he stashed away two Pringles chips in a bowl in his oven!
He opened it up, grinned with glee, grabbed the chips from the bowl, exclaims, "my chips!" and promptly shoves them in his mouth and runs away! He was soooo proud of himself. And I was bewildered, intrigued, and frankly, impressed.
So when he went to bed, I hit the sauce.
The chocolate sauce. I needed chocolate milk. And it needed me.
So today, the air conditioning went out on my car. With humidity and the sweater blouse I wore to work today, that made my body an approximate temperature of 475•. So the drive home on the interstate with the other people eager to leave the city was already going to be awesome.
Then my son decided that yelling, "Momma! Mom! Ah! MoooooommmmmAAAAH!!!" would be most super fun. All the way home. In a sweat box designed for getting state secrets out of very well trained spies.
So when I got home, I was frazzled. Justin was nice enough to take Sam outside and play ladder ball while I cooked so I could destress.
Until...
(my interpretation of sam's wailing)
"momma I will die right now if I don't get raisins! Raisins are the fruit of life and you hate me because you refuse to give me them before dinner!!!"
"momma how dare you put salad on my plate?!?!? I will surely die from the rotten ass this will surely give me from being in my vicinity!"
"mom, you ungrateful slut! How dare you eat your dinner when i clearly need my third cup of juice in the last ten minutes! Surely you can tell I'm dehydrated!!!"
Ughhhhhhh....
After we settled the great juice saga of 2012, we agreed to read books. And that was for realsies super fun. He finds "goodnight gorilla" hilarious which I then find hilarious.
Where is the true hilarity of the night you ask? When my son was pretending to cook on the big stove and I encouraged him to play on his stove. He goes over to the stove and says, "oh!"
To what? He remembered that no less than last Saturday he stashed away two Pringles chips in a bowl in his oven!
He opened it up, grinned with glee, grabbed the chips from the bowl, exclaims, "my chips!" and promptly shoves them in his mouth and runs away! He was soooo proud of himself. And I was bewildered, intrigued, and frankly, impressed.
So when he went to bed, I hit the sauce.
The chocolate sauce. I needed chocolate milk. And it needed me.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Same Sex Marriage Woes
I have many thoughts on this issue. The most prevalent one is, "Why on Earth are we talking about this?"
The resounding answer is any mixture of the following: hate, the "ick" factor, religion, slippery slope.
The most prevalent argument I hear is religion... with a close second being the slippery slope argument. Let me address them both here:
Religion:
Yes I know the verses exist that homosexuality is a sin. I'm not ignoring those. Too me, it suffices to say, separation of church and state. Your religion doesn't have to support it. But this is a discrimination case as is. If your church or religion doesn't want to support gay marriage? Fine. Don't. Why can't we leave it at that?
"Marriage is between a MAN and WOMAN. That's how GOD intended it!" Yes. And God intended for humans to live sin free lives. And he probably intended on everyone choosing Him and loving Him. And yet we allow atheists, Satan worshipers, perverts, rapists, murderers, etc marry every single day. With no protest. As long as it is a man and woman, there is nothing wrong with it.
By saying marriage between a man and a woman is the only way, does that mean you personally support rapists? Perverts? Adulterers? Atheists? Murderers?
No? That's weird. There isn't any picketing to keep them from marrying, is there?
Not to mention that we are just picking and choosing our favorite pieces from the Bible. Seems to me God kind of hit on that divorce thing pretty hard too. If we are banning same sex marriage, why aren't we leading a charge to ban divorce? Divorce is mentioned more in the Bible than homosexuality... must have been more important right? And I'm pretty sure "irreconcilable differences" wasn't listed as a valid reason to divorce.
Slippery Slope Argument:
"If we let a man marry a man and a woman marry a woman, then people will be wanting to marry their dogs... or the cats... or their favorite fence post! Where do we draw the line?!"
At two consenting adults, moron.
Geez. This is the DUMBEST most IGNORANT argument out there.
You know how people campaigned to keep women and minorities from voting?
"If we let a woman vote or a Negro to vote, what's next? Can my dog vote? Can my cat vote? Can my favorite fence post vote?"
How ridiculous does that sound? And yet, it is working on so many people!
The bottom line to me is how sad this is. Same sex marriage is in no way a threat to my marriage. Neither is Britney Spears' short lived marriage, Rush Limbaugh's many marriages, or any other argument. It is silly. My marriage is between me, my husband and God. I got married with full intentions of keeping God in my marriage. That was my choice.
Many heterosexual people enter into marriage without God every single day. How is it fair for them to do it and it isn't for two consenting women or men?
And good grief is this going to be embarrassing in 20 or 30 years. Just like we can't imagine why women or minorities couldn't vote back in the day... and how backwards that was... that's what we will feel like in a few decades when this is a non issue and just a sad splotch on our past.
If homosexuality is "icky" to you and just freaks you out, that's fine. In all honesty, it used to me too. Then I met some amazing people and they happened to be gay. And I was hit face to face with it. Turns out, they are just like us heteros save one minor detail. And I'm not going to pretend that I'm not a little taken aback when I see a man kiss a man or a woman kiss a woman, or I see a same sex couple holding hands... I am most of the time. It isn't something you see every day. But that is no reason to deny them marriage rights.
End rant. Le sigh.
The resounding answer is any mixture of the following: hate, the "ick" factor, religion, slippery slope.
The most prevalent argument I hear is religion... with a close second being the slippery slope argument. Let me address them both here:
Religion:
Yes I know the verses exist that homosexuality is a sin. I'm not ignoring those. Too me, it suffices to say, separation of church and state. Your religion doesn't have to support it. But this is a discrimination case as is. If your church or religion doesn't want to support gay marriage? Fine. Don't. Why can't we leave it at that?
"Marriage is between a MAN and WOMAN. That's how GOD intended it!" Yes. And God intended for humans to live sin free lives. And he probably intended on everyone choosing Him and loving Him. And yet we allow atheists, Satan worshipers, perverts, rapists, murderers, etc marry every single day. With no protest. As long as it is a man and woman, there is nothing wrong with it.
By saying marriage between a man and a woman is the only way, does that mean you personally support rapists? Perverts? Adulterers? Atheists? Murderers?
No? That's weird. There isn't any picketing to keep them from marrying, is there?
Not to mention that we are just picking and choosing our favorite pieces from the Bible. Seems to me God kind of hit on that divorce thing pretty hard too. If we are banning same sex marriage, why aren't we leading a charge to ban divorce? Divorce is mentioned more in the Bible than homosexuality... must have been more important right? And I'm pretty sure "irreconcilable differences" wasn't listed as a valid reason to divorce.
Slippery Slope Argument:
"If we let a man marry a man and a woman marry a woman, then people will be wanting to marry their dogs... or the cats... or their favorite fence post! Where do we draw the line?!"
At two consenting adults, moron.
Geez. This is the DUMBEST most IGNORANT argument out there.
You know how people campaigned to keep women and minorities from voting?
"If we let a woman vote or a Negro to vote, what's next? Can my dog vote? Can my cat vote? Can my favorite fence post vote?"
How ridiculous does that sound? And yet, it is working on so many people!
The bottom line to me is how sad this is. Same sex marriage is in no way a threat to my marriage. Neither is Britney Spears' short lived marriage, Rush Limbaugh's many marriages, or any other argument. It is silly. My marriage is between me, my husband and God. I got married with full intentions of keeping God in my marriage. That was my choice.
Many heterosexual people enter into marriage without God every single day. How is it fair for them to do it and it isn't for two consenting women or men?
And good grief is this going to be embarrassing in 20 or 30 years. Just like we can't imagine why women or minorities couldn't vote back in the day... and how backwards that was... that's what we will feel like in a few decades when this is a non issue and just a sad splotch on our past.
If homosexuality is "icky" to you and just freaks you out, that's fine. In all honesty, it used to me too. Then I met some amazing people and they happened to be gay. And I was hit face to face with it. Turns out, they are just like us heteros save one minor detail. And I'm not going to pretend that I'm not a little taken aback when I see a man kiss a man or a woman kiss a woman, or I see a same sex couple holding hands... I am most of the time. It isn't something you see every day. But that is no reason to deny them marriage rights.
End rant. Le sigh.
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