Top Ten Post . . . Or Wherein I Admit I Have Failed

I made, like, two New Year's resolutions this year.  And then I promptly broke both of them.  One was to do Top Ten (or Top Five, if needed) posts every month of the year, and the other was . . . I don't even remember.  I obviously wasn't committed from the start because I didn't even write them down. 

Fortunately, I am well past the point in my life when I get down about such things.  One of my favorite Marjorie Pay Hinckley stories came from a letter she wrote to her daughter (I think?).  She said, "I've made a goal to read one chapter out of each of the standard works every day.  I'm four days in and three days behind.  Oh well.  Better to have tried and failed than never to have tried."  Wise, wise woman.  So I don't feel the slightest bit bad that my resolutions didn't stick.  Except that we love to go back and read our Top Tens because they help tell our family story.  So it's time to get back on the saddle and try again.

Note: this Top Ten comes from months of random events.  ENJOY!  (I know we will when we come back and read it again in a year or so.)

10) Adam: What day is it?  I could order Pokemon today.
Lucy: Mmm-hmmmm.
A: I hope the mail people aren't Catholic.
L: Ummm, why?
A:  Because then my Pokemon can't come on Sunday!

9) Overheard dinner conversation:
L: If you were an ice cream topping, what would you be?  I would be cherries.
K: Hmmm.  Hot fudge.
I: Caramel.
A: I like sprinkles!
E: Chocolate.
M: I think you're all nuts!

8) M: Slinkies off your noses during prayer!
(Now there's a sentence I never thought I'd need to say...)

7) Adam: I can do it easilier.  (Trying to teach the basics of the English language to a 5 year old is confusing for both of us.  How do you explain our grammar?  It just doesn't make sense.)

6) Lucy (after watching a video of the Prophets and Apostles bearing their testimonies of Jesus Christ):  I just feel so sorry for anyone who doesn't know about Jesus.

5) What is up with the love/hate relationship of siblings?  I KNOW that's how it is.  I grew up with 8 siblings.  I really do get it.  And still, the change from loving, hugging, laughing brothers to yelling and punching each other in the face and screaming in under 2 seconds seems a little excessive.  They'll like each other when they get older, right?  Right, brothers??

4) When one is making baking powder biscuits for the first time in awhile, one should make sure that they are actually using baking powder instead of . . . say . . . baking soda.  Because otherwise one will take a bite and spit it out when one realizes just how disgusting baking soda biscuits are.  For the record.  (And it might take one an hour or so to realize just WHY the biscuits were so awful, and then it will just come to one as a bolt from the blue.  For the record.)

3) After a little coaching, I let Isaac call his Primary teacher to say thank you for the gift she brought him and left on the porch.  And this is how it went down:
I: Hi!  This message is for Sister Buhler.  This is Isaac.   Thank you for the gifts you brought me.  They are really fun.  Bye! . . . . . . . MOM!  HOW DO YOU END A MESSAGE!?!?!?
M: Just hang up the phone, Isaac.
I: Ohhhhhhhhhh.  Hahahahahahahaha--click.

I'll bet she got a kick out of that one.

2) Our carpool friend came hopping up to the car one afternoon and I asked him what happened?  Twisted ankle?  Nope.  Stubbed toe?  Nope.  Sore leg?  Nope again.  He decided he wanted to hop on one foot until his birthday the next day.  You know.  Just cause.

1) A: If Lucy died would Isaac, Kye, and I get her money?  We could split it up!
A: You'll be consequenced that...
And...
M: OK.  Do you know what you do when your alarm goes off?
A: Yeah.  I go 'cawcacaw' and everyone else in the house wakes up.

Mmmm, hmmmm.  Something like that.

That's all folks.  See you next month.  Maybe.