FHE Funnies

Last night in FHE we were talking about how Jesus told Simon Peter to "feed my sheep." So I asked the children, what they could do to feed the sheep. Ellen stood in front of me, face to face, with her hand raised high. So, as I could no longer see anyone else in the room, I acknowledged her and asked, "So Ellen, how can you feed the sheep?" Her reply was funny but true. "We can feed them corn, mommy!" That wasn't quite the reply I had in mind. I didn't know sheep ate corn.

Hmmmm

This morning as I sat in the carpool drop-off lane I witnessed the most hilarious thing. I had dropped Anna off, and I sat waiting for her to return with the math assignments for the sick kids at home, when out of the corner of my eye I saw something surprising... Parked in front of me was a truck with a cover over its bed. The back was open, and inside, laying prostrate face down was a girl. She lay there for a minute with her arms spread wide, her red shirt blaring against the black of the bed. Then realizing she was at her destination, she slowly slithered out of the truck bed, grabbed her backpack, closed the tailgate, and went into school. So my question is, did she really come to school in the back of the truck?

Bad Dreams

Okay, so I am the first to admit that I could never write a book about parenting because, let's face it, kids are totally baffling. So I was really wondering if I went wrong somewhere when tonight my little Ellie prayed that James would have bad dreams. Maybe, it's just me...but I think that's taking April Fools Day a little too far. Who knew Ellie had such a dark sense of humor. I just hope she didn't notice me laughing in the dark....afterall, I really don't want to encourage this type of behavior ;).

What?!

It's finally here...April Fools Day! James has been waiting and planning all week to play an April Fools joke on me, but through my vast April Fools experience I have learned that the best time to play a joke is before the jokee realizes what day it is. That being said, first thing in the morning I jumped gleefully out of bed, and ran with a purposeful panic downstairs to James' room. I paused outside the door to get in character and ran into the room, grabbed his covers and in an urgent voice said, "James, James get up! It's 8:15. You're late for school." Now to the boy's credit he didn't even flinch but flung his covers off the bed, sprang out of bed, and ran out of the room. I called out to him, "James, wait." He obediently came back into the room, a look of determined focus on his face. I looked at him and in my best nah-nah-nah-nah-nah voice I said, "April Fools!" He immediately tackled me with an "I can't believe you got me," and we laughed. Of course, he spent the rest of the morning trying to get me with things like "Ellen's fish (a big yellow rocking fish) is growing!" But to no avail. That's right. Mom-1 James-0.