Laughing Gas

"Breedbate": to pass gas while laughing. This was just one of several weird answers we made up for even weirder words in a game of Balderdash.

"Bantling": the offspring of a hedgehog, or a lame duck? No, its actually a spoiled brat.

"Mortress": dead hair, or a wall built to keep firebrands out in 1524? Sorry, its a hearty meat and vegetable stew.

"Leveret": an incorrect yet humorous answer, or a small lever? Nope, a small rabbit.

We won't mention who was doing most of the laughing, but it was the same as the one that made us run for the air freshener     :-/

I carry your heart

In Her Shoes, a wonderfully emotional movie about two sisters, so diametrically opposite, and yet so much the same. Maggie, the wild and crazy one, so spontaneous, thoughtless, and carefree. Rose, straight-laced, responsible, a lawyer, treats herself to one beautiful pair of shoes after the other, but never goes out to show them off.

A story of desperation, of self-esteem, and finally of acceptance. My favorite lines are at the end, a poem by E. E. Cummings:

i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it (anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet)
i want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

Scary Horse Hair

Give everyone in the family their own personalized name anagrams for New Years, something weird and wacky:

Jake Wesley Richards: jeweler has scary kid

Charlotte Richards: horse cart child art

Sigrid Andrea Richards: desiring rad hair cards