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The Talent Show

2008-02-28

  My son came home from school with a permission slip for auditioning for the annual talent show.

He begged me to sign it so he could return it.

I asked what his talent was and he said he wanted to dress up as an old man, his character he created, "Mr. Jenkins" and tell a few jokes.  He does similiar performances out on the playground because the other children tell me how funny he is as the "old man".  He tells me how they laugh.

So I took him to the audition.  He wore a gray wig and had a cane.  He waddled onto the stage platform exclaiming in a gruff voice as he walked "oh, my aching back", then told his jokes.  At the end he then pretended to fall asleep, woke up and said it was time for his nap and shuffled off the stage.

The audience laughed at anything he did.  The other children thought he looked so "cool".
He is in the show as he got a participation notice.

The show is in a few weeks so he has to rehearse and perfect his act.

I think I am going to have to get him an agent.

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The Double Digit Birthday

2008-02-27

 

Happy Birthday
 


Came and went.  If you read a previous post, my son cried about becoming a "double digit" in age one night as he went to bed.

My son requested a yellow butter cake with fudge frosting.
He added decorations, colorful hokey pokies (jimmies) and his Thomas the Tank cake decorations from his 6th birthday.
I added nine candles since he said he always wanted to be nine.

I saw him counting the candles and he let out a big disapproving "HEY!".
I asked him what was wrong.
He said there were only nine candles but he was ten.

I said, "but you said you wanted to be nine forever so I put nine on."
His reply: " I told you Mommy, I am now nine plus one."

I put the tenth candle on. He was happy.

It was a great birthday. He had a jammy day in a storm and we lost power.
Thank god for birthday candles.
I am changing his name to Peter Pan one of these days.

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Update Notes

2008-02-27

Sorry -- I have been having some technical difficulties here and have had to wait it out.

I have moved my Wordless Wednesday to my Penny Lane mostly meme blog so people can comment unlike here at this lonely spot of a blog. (Non-members cannot comment - period)
Yes, I also get files and categories there!  I can even pre and post date posts! LOL -- very exciting!  Like a make over!

It is school vacation week.  We have had two snowstorms so far.  Now it will be below freezing.
At least March 1st is almost here and Daylight Savings time is March 8th.  More daylight but maybe less blogging when the weather gets better.  Spring is three weeks away and that usually means mud season here till May, and then those pesky Black Flies arrive.  I did not know what they were when I first moved to NH.  I only go out when they are not around in May.

Anyways, I have a bunch of posts to make once things get smoothed out here -- I will keep it to my family stories and Oprah Redux posts, some recipes, and periodic humor.

Meanwhile, take a quick trip over to Penny Lane -- I also have a little gallery there.

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False Teeth

2008-02-19

Share the laughter -- found this joke and thought it was funny.

While working for an organization that delivers lunches to elderly shut-ins, I used to take my four-year-old daughter on my afternoon rounds. She was unfailingly intrigued by the various appliances of old age, particularly the canes, walkers, and wheelchairs.

One day, I found her staring at a pair of false teeth soaking in a glass. As I braced myself for the inevitable barrage of questions, she merely turned and whispered, "The tooth fairy will never believe this!"

 

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The Cookie Caper and Catastrophe

2008-02-15

  Last night, at a small Valentine family ceremony, I gave the children their cards with some money.

And of course and naturally, for some strange reason, my daughter recalled this little tidbit about her younger brother.

Time frame: First Grade
Situation: Students were asked to donate money for winter items for the needy.
I told my son (first grader at the time) to select money from his "account" to donate.
He decided a dollar was enough from his limited funds.
As he leaves for school, I remind him to donate it as soon as he gets there.

When he came home from his bus stop walk, he had chocolate all over his face.
I asked him if he donated his dollar.
He stopped short and was speechless, he did not offer an answer.

Then it came out.  Arianna, the girl who still to this day is madly in love with him,  swiped the dollar out of his hand and bossily suggested that they spend the dollar and buy a bag of homemade double chocolate chip cookies (also an afterschool fundraiser for another purpose).

So it was done, she spent his donation, and they split the goodies between the two of them.
Yes, and the chocolate evidence on his face said he enjoyed every last bit!
It was all her idea and her fault he did not have the dollar.

I asked why he did not donate the money in the morning when they collect.
No answer to that.

So I ask about this at school and they investigate only to find out that my son was so proud of his dollar and he was showing it off in the bus line when evidently the cookie ploy was concocted and carried out while waiting for the bus.

The next day, I told him he had to donate twice the amount to the needy people.
Naturally he cried like I was telling him to rob the bank.

Well, that is the way the cookie crumbles I told him and reminded him of how delicious his treat was the day before.

My son did not like my daughter dregging up this little piece of "naughty business history".
Such is life.

 

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Valentine's Day Fiasco

2008-02-14

 Tuesday night another storm, snow that turned to rain, lots of slush, then ice.

There was no school on Wednesday and my son was absolutely delighted.
He played on his Gameboy, on the computer, watched The Beverly Hillbillies.
We did his Valentines then studied for the spelling test.

Today he was the first up (very early I might add).
He came into our room around 6:15 am or so and told us there was a two hour delay.
Good. We slept in being tired from shovelling slush and I was outside in the freezing cold at 2 am with the dogs because they just had to go out at that time.

Then we hear our daughter upset that no one woke her up on time! (An amazing complaint!)
While still in bed under the warm toasty covers, I told her that there was a two hour delay.
My husband got up and checked the ticker on the TV and my daughter checked her computer.
Both discovered that there was NO two hour delay as my son said he heard and saw on the news.

Everyone was scrambling around -- in particular my husband and daughter because she was going to be late for school however, my son would not be late to his dismay.

My daughter suggested that my son be banished from the house.
Not unusual.
My son when he was five wanted to know if his sister could be "kicked out of the family" and suggested how we should do this was to open the front door and give her the boot onto the front lawn and shut and lock the door behind us.

Such wishful thinking on all accounts.
I should be so lucky to witness these sibling skirmishes.

Happy Valentine's Day -- may you feel the love too.

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Wordless Wednesday: Iced

2008-02-13

Ice

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Rules by Karla Kuskin

2008-02-11

My son's assignment -- read the poem "Rules", then write four lines of your own with lines two and four rhyming.
His poem follows the real one.


Rules
by Karla Kuskin

Do not jump on ancient uncles.

Do not yell at average mice.

Do not wear a broom to breakfast.

Do not ask a snake's advice.

Do not bathe in chocolate pudding.

Do not talk to bearded bears.

Do not smoke cigars on sofas.

Do not dance on velvet chairs.

Do not take a whale to visit
Russell's mother's cousin's yacht.

And whatever else you do do
It is better you
Do not.

My son's take (unedited):

Do not hier a mocky as your sister.

Do not hit a mocky on the head.

Do not kiss a mocky when your 8.

And do not hit a mocky in his bed.

Great "monkey business".  I would not hire a monky as a sister myself. Guess he has been playing his Gameboy too much.


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Ellen - Grilled Cheese - Scotto Family

2008-02-10

The Scotto Family Grilled Cheese Sandwich (Mozzerella in Carrozza) as seen on Ellen 1/29/08.

Ok -- this was the ultimate grilled cheese sandwich I ever saw and I wrote down the ingredients and process as I watched the show.
Basically, this is the recipe as they presented it and a synopsis of the real recipe.
I jotted it down on the back of an envelope which, I misplaced and just found!  Horray -- a blog post!



Bread that has a texture
Mozzarella Cheese
Fresh Basil

Put the next three ingredients each in a shallow bowl  or pie plate (3/three bowls or pie plates) big enough to dip and coat the bread easily:

Flour
Egg (raw and scrabbled) with a bit of milk
Bread Crumbs (plain or seasoned)

10 inch skillet with heated olive oil

Tomato Sauce (seasoned)

Make the sandwich with the bread, cheese, basil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Make sure the sandwich is firmly pressed together so it won't fall apart.

Dip both sides in the flour.
Dip both sides in the egg.
Dip both sides in the bread crumbs.

Heat olive oil in the skillet and heat the sandwiches turning with tong.
Heat till sandwich is brown and cheese is melted.

Make sure the olive oil is just hot enough but not so hot that the sandwiches scorch and the cheese is not melted.

Cut sandwiches in half. Dip sandwiches in the tomato sauce and eat. YUM!


Other Grilled Cheese Sandwiches: with tomato, with ham, with bacon.

I like cooking mine in my George Forman Grill.  They come out nice.  Don't put too much butter on the bread side that needs to be grilled or it will be very soggy not to mention the mess!



The Scotto Family Original Recipe

Mr. Food's Ultimate Grilled Cheese Sandwich -- triple YUMMY!

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Happy Valentine's Share

2008-02-10

Valentine's Share


Get the code

Image courtesy of ThatGrrl
http://thatgrrlca.blogspot.com

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In the 'Hood

2008-02-09

 Ok -- more snow, no school one day and a couple of delayed openings, plenty of shovelling.  This interferes with my time.  I was just catching up, but do you ever catch up?

Life goes on . . . two funny bits . . .

I told my son (the one who wishes not to be a double digit his next birthday) that he had to take a shower.
He told me he couldn't.
I asked why.
He said he was full of electricity and that if he took a shower, he might get electrocuted.

Next . . .

My daughter came home from school and told me they were starting to read To Kill A Mockingbird.
She said the teacher read the descriptive passage about Boo Radley's house.
Then she asked the class, "Who has had or has strange neighbors that you avoid?"
To the startlement of my daughter, the neighbor girl raised her hand!

Really?  was she thinking of us?

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