Awesome Flame Shooting Mini-Van?

Or just some fancy sidewalk chalk artwork?
Thanks, Nature Girl... You make a Mom Van seem so cool!
Call me 'Ghost Rider'

At The Bookstore

Husband and Sister-in-law are searching for a book:

Husband: "Where do you think it might be?"

Sister-in-law: "I think we'd find it in the Self-Help section."

Husband: "And where is that located?"

Sister-in-law: *looking around* "I'm not really sure."

Helpful Stranger who overheard conversation: "Oh um, the Self-Help Section is right over there."

Sister-in-law: *glibly replies to stranger* "I'm sorry but, what part of Self-Help don't you understand?"

Conversation in a gift shop

Sister-in-law: (Regarding a conversation we were having) "I can't tell you how much that disturbs me."

Me: (Walking through the store I notice a little sign that has one word on it and that word is 'Disturbed') "Well then here you go Pat. You should wear this." *handing her the sign*

Sister-in-law: "So what are you saying EXACTLY?"

Me: "Um, you JUST said you were DISTURBED!"

Sister-in-law: "Can you believe it Mom? Margie said I should wear this sign." *holds up 'Disturbed' sign*

Me: "No I didn't!"

Mother-in-law: "Margie, that wasn't very nice."

Personally, I think this whole family needs a sign.

And then our very Catholic Aunt gave us the evil eye...

We're not very religious... Okay, I once was but after being brought up in a household filled with feigned piousness and blatant hypocrisy, I decided to worship the God I believed in, in my own personal and private way.

Then we had kids and while our kids asked questions every now and again, they never asked to learn more through attending church... any church... ever.

So roughly 8 yrs. ago when we attended the Catholic wedding of our cousin, we shouldn't have been surprised when our daughter walked into the church and upon seeing the 9 ft. tall wooden crucifix hanging at the front of the church she turned to us and said, "What's with the creepy looking guy on the giant 'T'?"

Our daughter learned about Jesus during the car ride on the way to the reception.

My husbands aunt continues to pray for all our souls.

Did You Mean Alzheimer's Disease?

Recalling to my daughter the details of a book we'd read together a while back she said, "Wow mom, I forget all that... See, you don't have 'Old Timers Disease'."

Family Game

My son has a job, his job is to take out the trash. He's paid a rather hefty allowance for this job. However, seeing as this lofty task was thrust upon him and being a 17 yr. old boy, taking out the trash is rarely if NEVER his first priority... So our family gets to play a little game I like to refer to as 'Trash Can Jenga'... And if you've ever played 'Jenga' you know EXACTLY what I mean.