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I think that most of these comics are dumb.
well, dumb is a bit harsh.
Kind of like the comics that I write and then throw out.
But some are strangely funny.

We got a new phone

And it's cordless.
The first time my huge family has ever had a cordless phone. I've had trouble for 20 years to have a private conversation. yes. Not that I have too many that need to be secret, but you know what I mean. It gets annoying when you get off the phone and the 6 people who have gathered in the room say things like, " Who was that?" " Rebecca who?" "Your going to be home for dinnner, right?!"

So anyway, my brother Benjamin thinks he knows everything. His ego has been growing for a while now, and it's beginning to be too big for his body. and his brain. He was putting a record on at my Grandparents house on their record player, and he had no idea what he was doing, so I did most of it and then told him, " ok, The song is good, the volume is good, and the record is good...don't touch" and he turns to me and says, " Tam. I know more about this than you do."

ha.....

Today, he was trying out the new phone, and decided to call his buddy Kristopher. Mom helped him dial the number, then handed it to him. " Hello? Kristopher!?"
We told him he should wait for Kristopher to pick up before he started talking...he barely gives us a look and continues, " Kristopher, it's Benjamin Speaking. Kristopher? Are you there? Kristopher...helllooooo" And we asked him if it was ringing, and he said it was, and then he said, " I have to, so he knows who's calling. He has CALLER DISPLAY"

At this moment, he and Laura are taking turns hiding the phone and sending the other to find it guided only by the phone's beep. aahh...I wish I was out of this house and not doing a project. I can't even blame myself and get over it.

It's that time of year...

Merry Christmas!
Happy New Year!

Occassionally I play match maker, and this is one of those times. It's never brought on by my own genious, but by something both members of the match have said. It's great because it's partly their fault that way. I just listen closely. Forget knowing your friends well enough to pair them off, I'm not gifted that way.

Neither of them know who the other is, which is the hardest part of setting up a blind date. (I actually think they have a clue, but I'm not confirming anything) It's fun because it's almost like having my own romance. WOW..that sounded pathetic. It's more like I get to play a part in a REAL story, instead of in a book or a movie. And it's really exciting.

So. Hope you are having a great Christmas and that you don't have to work on a stupid project or anything.

Merry Christmas!

I told my family that we were taking family pictures after church this morning.
Benj ran in some mud around the church.
So did Laura.


But besides that it turned out ok.
I was looking at the pictures after and thought it would have looked much nicer outside with natural lighting, but there was no way everyone would agree after already standing for 10, 10!!! pictures.

There is a sweet little baby at church named Amber. She's over a year old, so she can talk a bit. She's a foster child with a family from church and they've had her for a while now, and I fell in love with her the first time I saw her. If it were possible I would adopt her. She always puts her arms out to me to carry her when she sees me. :)

Benj

Benjamin made a language.

Unfortunately, he can't read it, or even remember most of the words, but he's darn good at thinking them up.

He named it " Silver"

" Loss!" pla z'la f'la foo eek! losso foo G'leen."

That translated says: "Yes! My yellow bread and magarine! Please and Thank you"


I was cutting his hair this morning, and he said " Can you cut my hair like Zach's?"

Ok, history on Benjamin and his hair. He hated bangs for awhile, so he cut them off right to his scalp 3 times. Which meant a buzzcut and an unhappy me. Then he decided he liked long bangs. The longer the better. He was mad at me for a full day when I trimmed them during a haircut. Then he wanted to have flat hair, not sticking up at all. Anyway, so now he wants hair like Zach. which means absolutely gorgeous. Zach has the best hair ever.
I don't know if I'll be able to keep up with the demands of this kid if it gets much worse, but for now it's kind of cute.

Hey

I said to Tasha at school today,

" Say silk five times fast!"
"silk, silk, silk, silk, silk..."
"what do cows drink?"
"milk"

no they don't...

Why does that one always work? My little brother asked me that the other day and had a great time laughing at me afterwards. It hurts a bit because he's 6 and knows more jokes than I do. He's got a mind like a steel trap. It hurts more because I've been told that one before, and it worked then too.
GASP
Huge realization.
I'm just like my mother.


Anyway, a bit scary news, my car was acting funny the past little while and so my Dad called a man to get it fixed and we found out that there was something seriously wrong with something around the wheel area, and I could have been in a bad accident and it's kind of amazing that I wasn't. So that's not too cool, but it comes at a good time because adding a bit more drama to my storage of it goes pretty much unnoticed nowadays.
Is anyone else as surprised as I am to discover that I am a drama queen?

My Favorite Things

My bed in the morning when I have to get up
Being clean
Christmas smells
Kingdom Seekers-Especially my girls
Doing hair for friends
Drawing when it's cozy inside and people aren't moving around a whole lot (easier to draw when they don't move)
My sisters
Knowing I've made someone's day better