Why we don't eat our young
Because they're freakin' funny, that's why!
The kids were arguing with each other today to the point that I wanted to go outside and stick my head in a snowbank. Instead I suggested they gear up and go outside to play while the snow lasted, because the temperature was finally above freezing, and it had started to rain a little bit.
That worked. They were too busy flinging snowballs and building snow goons and such to fight with each other. At one point, Orion hollered "YUKON HO!" because they're both Calvin and Hobbes fiends. At that point, Fenris started wading through a two-foot drift and hollered "Look! I'm in Alaska!" Without skipping a beat, he shrieked "Oh no! It's Sarah Palin! BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!" At which point he dramatically fell flat on his back. Staring up at the sky, he whispered with his "last breath" "I...am...not...a...moose..."
They spent the next hour flinging snowballs at imaginary Sarah Palins in the yard.
The woman should be congratulated. Along with Dick Cheney and Michael Jackson, she's joined the lexicon of Official Boogey Persons in our household.
The kids were arguing with each other today to the point that I wanted to go outside and stick my head in a snowbank. Instead I suggested they gear up and go outside to play while the snow lasted, because the temperature was finally above freezing, and it had started to rain a little bit.
That worked. They were too busy flinging snowballs and building snow goons and such to fight with each other. At one point, Orion hollered "YUKON HO!" because they're both Calvin and Hobbes fiends. At that point, Fenris started wading through a two-foot drift and hollered "Look! I'm in Alaska!" Without skipping a beat, he shrieked "Oh no! It's Sarah Palin! BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM!" At which point he dramatically fell flat on his back. Staring up at the sky, he whispered with his "last breath" "I...am...not...a...moose..."
They spent the next hour flinging snowballs at imaginary Sarah Palins in the yard.
The woman should be congratulated. Along with Dick Cheney and Michael Jackson, she's joined the lexicon of Official Boogey Persons in our household.