Upside Down Cats

The only real job I've ever had is child daycare provider... In fact, I've been practicing at this career for over twenty years now!

No, I don't believe I'm insane for choosing to do this for what is - so far - my life's work. Some days, however, I feel that the job itself may just cause insanity...at least of the temporary kind!

Sometimes the only way to combat the stress of dealing with children - other people's children whom you can't stuff in a closet - is to laugh...and laugh...and laugh some more...

Continue reading "I'm Gonna Go To Daycare Provider Hell For This!" »

Today is the third birthday of a little girl in my daycare. This morning she was playing with one of our teddy bears who had developed a small rip in his shoulder seam and was losing some stuffing. When she first saw the stuffing, I heard her say something about "germs." She apparently had it in her mind that the stuffing bits that were escaping from the bear were "germs."

I didn't give it much thought, though, until she came up to me with a handful of stuffing, announcing, "Gina, I don't like Germans...they're yucky!"

This was disappointing news for me, because both of my grandmothers were of German descent...!

Update...the aforementioned teddy bear has received eight stitches to close his wound by the extremely competent stuffed animal emergency room surgeon-on-call, Dr. Gina.

He is expected to make a complete recovery.

It's been a while since any of my daycare children said anything that cracked me up, but our funny-drought ended this morning, so my Too Cute! feature returneth...

A little girl who will turn three years old next month was singing The Farmer in the Dell and this is what I heard...

"The farmer takes a life...!"

We've got to stop watching Law and Order at quiet time...!!!

Can you believe I've been posting throughout the month of November about things for which I am thankful, and I haven't mentioned my Sweetie yet? Well, today's the day, and it only took until twenty days into National Blog Posting Month to do it!

There is actually a good reason for this omission...I was purposely trying to avoid writing that I am thankful for Scott.

Continue reading "Synchronicity" »

I'm writing about things for which I am thankful throughout November, also known as National Blog Posting Month. Today on day nineteen of NaBloPoMo, I am in a reflective mood. Looking through family photos earlier today brought back a flood of evocative memories. Many of the photos reminded me of my dad, who passed away ten years ago.

The photos have brought to the forefront of my mind that I am thankful for my dad.

Continue reading "Daddy's Little Girl" »

In another installment of Too Cute, we find a 4 1/2-year-old girl using - or rather, misusing - a common expression to great comic result...(Well, at least it made me chuckle!)

I believe she had heard the expression, "Ready as I'll ever be."

When she repeated it, it came out, "Ready as a lever bee."

I tried to correct her (in between my fits of laughter) but she would not be convinced that she was wrong...silly me, what do I know about familiar phrases anyway?!

So what's a lever bee?

Let's start off the weekend with a smile...

I snapped this photo on our way to breakfast on one of our New York vacations a couple years ago.

Those New Yorkers and their wicked sense of humor...!

I know an awful lot of people who would need some sort of horn cruise control if they blew their horn when they were experiencing anger...Otherwise, they would develop carpal tunnel syndrome (and none of the people I'm talking about are from New York!)

Wishing all a quiet, peaceful weekend.

Here's another new feature I'm adding today. My daycare kids can sure say the cutest things! They really come out with some unintentionally funny mispronunciations and misinterpretations. I thought I'd share them as they happen.

 

Today at my home daycare we had our monthly tornado drill.

A three-year-old girl must have enjoyed the activity because she asked me afterward if we could have another "tomato" drill!

“Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?” - James Thurber

I love this clever type of humor...I think a phrase like this tells you everything you need to know about humorist James Thurber.

We all think we're so original...this puts us in our place.

Here's an amusing quote in light of my previous novel...um, I mean post.

"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound – if I can remember any of the damn things" - Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)