This is an absolute scream!  I strongly urge you to forgo beverages and food while watching this video.

I finally have all my kids at home for the whole day all at once.  When you have teens this just happens more and more seldom.

And since they’re all here and our city has decided that it is time for my neighborhood to have our wonderful brush and rubbish pick-up AND it’s the last time we’ll have this service for free before we move . . . it’s time for the boys to be cleaning out the garage!  BIG TIME!

I love it!  I am a closet minimalist.  I love LOVE love seeing all this clutter go out to the curb.

They are unearthing lots of junk I forgot we ever owned, much less kept.  What is the matter with us?

When we move we may very likely move to a place with no garage.  That would be a huge adjustment for us.  I do hope so.  Less clutter storage!

Anyway, I wrote this whole post to tell you about the phones.

Once upon a time we had a home phone.  The kind that actually plugs into the wall.

So, Tex brought these weird phones with all their cords and plugs and hugeness into the house to make sure that they were supposed to go into the Goodwill box.

Here’s the rub.

Sally Mae saw them.

And you know how girls are!  It’s coded into the DNA to NEED to talk on phones.  She almost cried when I told Tex that, no, we don’t want to keep them and, yes, please put them into the give away box.

I have to admit, I hate when she cries.  But it occurred to me to use a sneaky diversion tactic on my sweet, little phone-lovin’ girl.  I asked her why it made her sad to see those phones go.  She admitted that she thought they were neat and that we should USE them.  (See? DNA.)  But I was ready for her.  I told her that, while those phones might still actually be functional, they only work when you are at home!  Can you imagine?  How inconvenient is that?!?!!!

She dropped the idea like a hot potato.  Those neat phones, full of mysterious buttons, lost all their charm once she realized you don’t keep them in your purse!

I recently quipped to a friend, “Hey!  It’s 2010 now!  Where the heck is my flying car?!?!!”

I’ve decided it’s cool enough that I have children who have no idea what a dial tone is.

Friday evening we had more fun!  Tex and Hank took me to a Tim Hawkins concert.  Oh my, did we laugh our faces off!

Dude is so funny!  He started off with a bit about homeschoolers and how it feels to get out of the house!  Oh, I laughed!  (’Cuz lately we put the home in homeschool.  Not Tex and Hank, but most of the rest of us.)  It was a hoot!

We were too busy, apparently, to take a variety of photos.

Tim kinda did the same thing the whole time, you know, funny songs, jokes, it all kinda looks the same in a photo anyway.

The boys looked about the same the whole time too, laughing, and more laughing, and then. . . some more, um, laughing.

See these boys?  It does my heart good to see them smiling and laughing so much.  You have to understand, they are good boys, and they usually have a good time, they’re just so much like their Dad, even keel and all that.  Drives me crazy!  I need to SEE the happy!

Friday evening I got to see a good dose of the happy!

Our sides and faces hurt from all the happy!

He really did sing this song for us!  It was wonderful!

If I clean something while I goof off is it really and truly goofing off?

Did you ever notice how the things we look at all the time get dirty right before our very eyes and sometimes we don’t notice the grime because it comes on kinda gradual-like?

The Confession

My kids and I sat here at the computer this morning for a good while watching stand up comedy on youtube.  Really.

The Justification

And while we were sitting here goofing off I just happened to notice that my keyboard was filthy!

It never occurred to me to take a before photo and if it had I wouldn’t publish it anyway.

I used a dinner knife and some windex wipes and really had at it while we laughed our faces off at Brian Regan.  This was my favorite one but here’s a whole page of them.  He’s a hoot, and he doesn’t swear or tell off color jokes.  Don’t see that everywhere ya look, huh?

Remember when I showed you a photo of a piece of mail sent to Hubs from . . . The Scooter Store?

Ha ha ha ha!

THAT was funy!

The people at The Scooter Store are funny!

The people at AARP are not!

‘Cuz this?

Not funny!

• It was cold and rainy.
• It was due to warm up considerably.
• The rabbits needed fed and watered.

Linked to:

• Wordless Wednesday@ Five Minutes for Mom
• Wordless Wednesday @ MomDot

Slim and Sally Mae, while wrapped in blankets and sitting in laundry baskets, are enjoying a little snack of some peanuts.  Guess what they’re singing.

Only because Pat – NY asked for it, I went searching for the Found a Peanut song and found ALL the words to ALL the verses (did you know there were 16 verses to this song?) plus a little audio widget that will play the music for you while you sing ALL 16 verses.

This is a crucial part of a well rounded childhood.  Teach it to your children so they can sing ALL 16 verses 16 times every day at the top of their lungs (especially while you are driving the car)  until Valentine’ Day 2012.  It won’t matter, you’ll be deaf by then, won’t you?