Redneck Lingo

So I waited a little longer than normal to update a post because I was waiting for more of you to leave a comment on my daughters awesome update. She got her drivers permit...that's very cool!! Plus, she actually did a good job on the post. Better than I do sometimes. :) She's also correct - it can be rather boring updating this. hee, hee When something comes up that I want to remember to write about, I put it in the notepad function of my phone to reference later.

Two things I want to discuss today.

Kids are gross! Not what they say but bodily. I'm cleaning the bathtub/shower the other day and run across a dried shower booger. This got me thinking (okay, we are going into the crazy though process of Kristi here so keep up if you can...) I wonder if God made it so sex would be a little on the gross side - all the fluids and stuff, I mean, think about it - and then pregnancy is definitely full of "ew" factors and then there is the whole birth - blech!!! But truly, this is perfect because by the time you get over fluids and hemorrhoids and leaking and seepage, you are ready for stinky diapers and baby spit up. And you sort of ease into this as well, the first poops are rather mild and the spit ups are cute. By the time the poo is gag inducing, you are so used to the sour milk smell that has permanently taken up residence in your sinuses, it doesn't phase you at all. Compared to that, the continual flow of toddler snot getting smeared onto you whenever you get a loving hug seems like nothing and you even willingly wipe their nose on your shirt tail or pinch it off with your fingers only to transfer it to your pant leg. If only Mr. Levi knew what his jeans would endure... You know, the blue really does hide a multitude of sins. Anyway, by the time the kids get old enough to pick their own nose and begin the booger wall, we as parents are well equipped to deal with it. Granted, it doesn't make it any more enjoyable, but somehow its not as repulsive when it's your offspring. Or maybe it's just REALLY embarrassing for a parent so they don't talk about it. As I was cleaning the shower booger my thoughts also wandered to the "booger wall." I never did this as a kid and I have never discovered that my kids did this but I know it is common. One of the guys on the morning radio show I listen to had to scrape off and repaint their child's wall after discovering the dried boogers on their "booger wall." The thought of that made the shower booger a little less gross.

I'm not a big fan of Ebonics. No, I didn't axe you a question...I asked you a question! And it's not fustrated its frrrrustrated! Alright?! Everybody get it? It's A L R I G H T not...Aight! It's funny to me to see these suburban kids trying to be ghetto gangster and talking like that but today I saw the best one...a redneck trying to be ganster! Big Ford pickup truck, heavy duty grill on the front with words across the top of the windshield. Instead of something fitting like Built Ford Tough or even Cowboy Up, the guy with the cigarette in his hand hangin out the window has - 'Aight Then across his windshield!!!! Aight Then?! Seriously?! I truly think I have seen everything now. A wanna be ghetto redneck driving a work truck that automatically excludes him from ghetto standing with a phrase in Ebonics splattered across the windshield that most white people have a hard time saying anyway without taking into account his southern accent.

This weekend was really hot and I did spend time outside without managing to get sunburned! :) I got a hint of pink but for the amount of time outside...I consider it a skin protection success. Downtown Franklin had this fair type thing with lots of fun vendor booths and food and some rides. Of course there were a couple music stages and the local dance studios had performances. It was fun. I got some great craft ideas. There was a man walking around who looked like Abe Lincoln and then there was a big robot dude who looked like one of the Transformers. Both Devan and I were worn out by the time we got home even though it was only about a 4 block thing.