That funny ornament!

I have this amazing friend named Christine. Here's a picture of the two of us: Except, you can't see our eyes. How about this one: Except, she hates that picture because she lost a lot of weight after that, but that's all I have of the two of us, so here's a great picture of just her! She's beautiful, huh? Well, Christine is adopted family. She treats my kids like they are her grandkids and me kinda like a daughtery sorta best friend. I love her. We get together every Monday night for Family Home Evening and trade off with going to her house and mine. This week was the week to be at my house. Our activity was tree decorating. The tree turned out beautiful, see.... Christine knows that all the ornaments in our collection are special, lots are homemade, but all of them are sentimental for some reason or another. We have, homemade photo ornaments, like these:
We also have ones other people have made us, like this one from my friend Sallie who has passed away. I never took off the wrapping or her gift tag. Sentimental.
And ones that aren't even traditional for a Christmas tree, like the Star of David because in my daughter's preschool class was a Jewish boy, they celebrated the customs and religious differences of all people, and Leila made this in her class. I keep it on my tree to remind my kids to appreciate the differences of others. Some funky ones too, like this one that Christine pulled out and wondered what in the heck it was, but knew it must go on the tree because, you know, they're all special and sentimental. It's the Inn. Where Joseph tried to get a room for Mary. I made that ornament, and I love it! She put it on the tree. Then she pulled this one out of the ornaments box. She looked at it quizzically. She turned it over a time or two and with a shrug of her shoulders, she placed it on the tree.

I watched it all happen. It was only a few seconds and she was going to go on to the next ornament when I erupted in laughter causing quite the confusion amongst all of my kids. Christine knew I must have been laughing at her because of that funny ornament, so she laughed too, not knowing why. So...all the kids wanted to know what was so funny. Did you know it's hard to talk intelligently when you're busting a gut? Well, I finally stopped laughing long enough to show them the new and strange ornament that was placed on the tree and the waves of laughter started all over again. I said, "Christine wins the prize for my LOL of the day!" I took the light tester off and put it in the Christmas tree box and we finished decorating with smiles on our faces and Christmas in hearts....

But later after Christine had left and I couldn't' stop smiling about that funny ornament. I went and pulled the light tester out of the Christmas tree box.....and I put it back on the tree. It's a great memory after all, just like all our other ornaments. Sentimental!

Dork Files

My husband is one of the smartest people I know. He writes computer books, creates software, makes iPhone applications, knows random stuff, has an answer for everything...he's just got a super great brain. He's also real cute and loves me, so I married him. It was a wayyy step up for me. In the deal he got someone who really appreciates that he's extra humanly smart, can boost his ego every day, someone nice and funny, nurturing and other good stuff I hope, but just...not that smart. So I'm constantly having him solve all of my technical issues and using him as my own live-in, walking, talking wikipedia. This morning when trying to figure out why my iPhone won't do this or that and how do I make it do this or that- he had answered a series of, oh, I don't know how many questions when he finally takes a deep breath and says, "Honey, I can't be THAT essential to your existence!" I scowl of course and tell him, "too bad, you are, deal with it!"

So... later after he has gone to work I couldn't find my phone. I knew Rob and I had been looking at it together when he was answering all those questions for me. I was trying to remember where it was and when I couldn't find it, I figured I'd text him, you know, to ask him where it was. Uhhhhh....processing kicking in here....yeah, see....I couldn't do that because, um, well, I didn't have my phone. Mmmhmmm, that's that not so smart thing about me that I have going on. (That and that 5 kids have really done some serious damage to my brain power. And I recently entered my forties...oh, I've got all kinds of excuses)

Anyways, since my hubby is so dang smart, I am constantly looking for ways to stump him, outwit him, know something before him, find something he doesn't know, or my heck, just prank him because he usually is unprankable, unstumpable, unoutwitted, and knows the punch line to every joke before I can deliver it!

Yeah, I italicized usually because today I GOT him!

Once I found my phone, I thought I'd send him the text I thought of anyways. Just to see if I could catch him off guard.

Here's the exchange:

Me: "ROB! Where's my phone??? U had it last!"
Him: "Check my table. I think u had last. U showed me u couldn't publish YouTube, I looked, and handed back."
Me: "Dork! GOTCHA!"
Him: "Huh?"
Me: "I texted you from my phone, duh! Dude, are you serious?"
Him: "Oh yeah...I feel dumb!"
Me: :D ahhhhh, totally made my day!"

LOL for the day goes to him! Oh yeah, it's gonna be a good day! :)