Feature Presentation

The Feature Presentation in August Presents:
Pink (most likely).

Adding to the list of Things I've Learned

It's probably a good idea to tell the person you put a piece of chocolate on their pillow before they go to sleep. And it melts. And the person wonders what is all over their shoulder in the morning. Especially when the person goes to sleep after midnight because they came in from out of town very late. It's the thought that counts, right?

Coming August 2011

It's rough when your four year old becomes smarter than you are. Ours has now decided to become the energy czar of our house. If I leave a room and the light is not turned off (because I'm going right back, of course), she'll say, "Would you please go turn that light off for me?"

I can't really argue with her, but I wish this new zeal for energy conservation had come from something I had taught her rather than her listening to a commercial for the power company.

She doesn't seem to remember anything we tell her, let alone have it spur her to any kind of constructive action. Maybe we could get the power company to run a commercial telling kids to clean their rooms or eat their dinner without whining.

A few days ago I heard some rather loud noises coming from the playroom so I stuck my head in the door and asked what was happening. The answer I got left room for a myriad of responses...
"We're cutting people's heads off!" All I could come up with was "Oh". I suppose that's what you might get when you give your kids a play tool set for Christmas.

Corndogs on China

At our house there are usually three types of eatingware: paper plates for eating outside and those times when there are no clean dishes in the cupboards. The everyday dishes for well, most everyday. And the fancy dishes that come out about once a year from the boxes they are stored in. I usually make a nice dinner about this time of year and pull out the China from the said boxes in the rarely used highest cupboard. Last week I put dinner in the crockpot, set the table then left for a few hours. Little did I know that I turned the knob to "Off" on the crockpot instead of "Low. I came home to a not very cooked dinner and five hungry people waiting for their dinner. The fastest thing I could think of to cook was corndogs (which I don't really like to buy, but sometimes four year olds are so convincing when you are shopping. Especially the picky ones). So, there you have it, corndogs on China.

Fall comes

leaves on trees begin to turn,

then like a huge gust of wind

it's cold, rainy and gray.

Fall comes again

after the storm

even more brilliant than the first time.

Bright red, yellow and orange burst

from trees.

The sky is so blue, the bluest crayon

couldn't add more color.



There is something I like about every season, but I think there are more things a like about fall. In my opinion it is very near to perfect.