Gregory was singing in the bathtub, but once I started recording, he just wanted to talk about his favorite kind of Indian flatbread.
Sometimes when Gary and I read scriptures together, I'll read the whole time, but I'll pause randomly and make Gary try to fill in the next words.
For example, we were reading in Matthew 25 the other day about the parable of the talents. Jody: "Thou good and--" Gary: "faithful servant," Jody: "thou hast been faithful over--" Gary: "a few things," Jody: "now I will make thee ruler over--" Gary: "many things." Sometimes Gary doesn't get the words verbatim, but when he gets the gist of it, I let it go without correcting him. Well, after the parable, it was talking about Christ separating the sheep from the goats, and in verse 34, it says, "Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." We got to verse 41, and this is how it went down: Jody: "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand--" Gary: "Go to hell." The actual words said: "depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." I decided Gary's version was close enough. We moved on to verse 42. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In related news, here are two jokes: 1. What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? Elephino! 2. A man dies and arrives at the pearly gates. Saint Peter says to him, "Upon reviewing your life's works, it doesn't look like you did much good. Can you think of anything that might qualify you for heaven?" The man replies, "Well, I did pay five cents in tithing once." Saint Peter considers this and says, "I don't know, man, that's really not much. Can you think of anything else good that you've done?" The man thinks hard, but can't come up with anything. "I'll have to check with the boss, then," says Peter. Peter goes into heaven and finds God. "Hey," he says, "there's a man out there who wants to come into heaven, but the only good thing he did in his life was pay five cents in tithing. What should I do?" God thinks about it for a minute, then says, "Give him his nickel and tell him to go to hell." Do you ever see a headline that says, "World's Oldest Person Dies"?
I always stop and think, "Huh, I wonder why we don't see that headline more often. Doesn't seem like that would happen every other week?" On the news I was just watching, the reporter said that the City of Portland was considering implementing a "street fee."
"Details about the street fee are still emerging," he said, "but in a survey, people were not necessarily outraged." It cracked me up. I wonder what the survey said. Maybe something like: "Portland is considering a 'street fee'. No one yet knows what this would entail. Would you consider yourself: A) Outraged, no matter what. B) Most likely outraged, but not necessarily to the point of public protest. C) Potentially outraged, depending on how hip the protesters are." Oh man, and you should've seen the attempt to fluoridate water here. Ha. I was also reminded of the Portlandia sketch in which is said, "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." The weather has been idyllic the last two days. Mostly sunny, high 60's to low 70's. Yesterday, when I was dressing Gregory, I thought, "Hey hey! I'll put him in shorts!" I only have one pair of shorts for him, and they're size 24 months, but I figured they'd probably fit okay. They stayed up, so I set him down and sent him on his way. While I was eating breakfast, he crawled over to the sliding door and stood up to look outside. It reminded me of something.
I was just on Pinterest and saw a recipe for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Chicken Breasts.
Blink blink. Who wants their chicken to melt in their mouth? Gregory loves playing in water, but I don't like all the hassle that goes into a full bath, so today we made a water station outside. Turns out, Greg got just as wet as he would have in a bath. So not actually any less effort. But lots of fun! I went shopping at Winco last night. While I was picking out bread, I heard this exchange behind me.
Woman: Oh, how about bagels? Do you want bagels? Man: What's bagels? Woman: Have you ever tried bagels? Man: No. What's that? Someone once told me that when our brain forms a new synapse (connection) between two unexpected things, that's what makes us laugh. Moments like this make me think there must be some truth to that. Because someone not knowing what bagels are (or "is") had never occurred to me and I thought it was absolutely hilarious. |
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