Things Found
This week I’ve been cleaning out closets and organizing drawers because I couldn’t find a fork to stick in my eye while watching the House vote on health care reform. I didn’t take before and after pictures of my projects because truly, you would judge me. However, I did find a couple of things that gave me my smile back:
This is a Thanksgiving place mat The Girl made for us. I’ve seen the front of this in my night stand drawer 50 times. Pretty self explanatory:
I have no idea why I’ve never paid any attention to the back of the placemat.
My precious little daughter wished her parents a Happy Thanksgivings with a p.s. Pease Out Sukers (translation: peace out suckers). Totally having a Thanksgiving banner printed for this year’s dinner. (Or maybe the Republicans can use it for their campaign slogan when they take back the Senate and House this fall.)
(Sorry.)
(Couldn’t resist.)
(Moving on now.)
Then there was this little treasure I found in my desk drawer.
I’m not altogether certain if Mary is overcome by the sight of Baby Jesus or by her husband’s unfortunate headlessness. Call me weird, but I can’t quite bring myself to throw the Holy Child into the garbage. It went back in the drawer until I can get Joseph’s head reattached.
So, is anyone else in the spring cleaning mood?
Or not?
I am laughing out loud. Joseph’s head with the string still attached makes me giggle.
I did closets this week too, but didn’t find any treasures like this.
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I suspect Joseph laughed his head off at your house!
OH.My.Word!! That is hilarious! I actually have (had) several Willow Tree people who found themselves decapitated at our last house. I, too, kept them with the best intentions of performing wood glue surgery but when we moved I had to say “Peace out suckers!” LOL
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Peace out suckers???? BAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHA….hilarious! ( I can tell she has brothers…)
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Haha! “Pease Out Sukers” Now that is hilarious. Joseph’s head reminds me of the time my son tied up a Ronald McDonald toy by the neck with the string on the blinds. He, of course, told me he was swinging, as in Weeee!.. but it totally looked like I should have found ‘note’ lying next to him.
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This week I tackled the playroom. I had been avoiding it for months, but we had a lady from church coming to stay with our children while we took at much needed “Mommy/Daddy” trip. There was NO WAY that news of my inability to make my children (7, 3, and 18 mths) keep their playrooom cleaned up was gonna make its way to the congregation!!!! The bonus…we finally located the missing garage door opener….don’t ask…just rejoice with us!
Now where did she here that? It made me laugh and tonight I needed it. Thanks:)
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Cracking up. Seriously. The headless Joseph might be in awe of Cinderella visiting our nativity scene this Christmas. See it here.
http://3girlsmom23.blogspot.com/2009/12/bet-you-wont-find-that-little-detail-in.html
Peace out Suckah!
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My husband worked at a Christian bookstore when he was in seminary. At the time those Willow Tree figures were very popular. He brought home all the rejects they could not sell. Most them were missing heads. He had displayed all over our apartment…kind of creepy. I wouldn’t let him put them up in our new house when we moved.
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I loved this post! Thanks for sharing with us. (smile)!
Blessings to your family!
This made me laugh out loud! I even made my husband read this post. It’s late and I’m SO tired, and you know how things are even funnier when you are tired! :-)
PS: Glad Pheonix (sp) was found and is OK.
Jennifer
Hi Lisa,
Yes…totally in the spring clean mode! Cleaning, specifically THROWING AWAY junk, makes me so happy. I keep threatening my husband with cleaning out the garage. The words ‘1-800 Junk’ are music to my ears!
I’d really REALLY love to be doing some spring cleaning right about now. Organizing, sorting, reducing… but 50+ hour work weeks leave me with zero energy left for home-making. I barely have enough left to be a mom.
Phew, this working mom thing is hard.
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I was actually crying because I was laughing so hard at that!!!
My 12 yr. old even walked in and asked me what was wrong!!!
Peace out sukers!!!!
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I just literally laughed out loud. Hilarious.
Peace out, sucker.
P.S. That sounds awful! But I’m leaving it.
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Cracking up at this!!! I so needed to laugh tonight. The last picture was a riot. Ironically I started your book today and am enjoying it so much. First two chapters opened my eyes to some things I needed to see. Can’t wait to read the rest of it!
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The back of that placemat rocks. So funny! Thanks for sharing that treasure from the depths of the drawer.
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Oh for heaven’s sake…..what kind of mother are you?
A placemat like that….deserves a FRAME!!!!
Bwaahaaahaa!
Hug that lil’ darlin for me would ya? She’s one cool cat!
Oh and the cleaning out? Hubby cleaned out our garage and storage room. That may not sound like any big deal to the rest of the world..but to us, the people who have to climb (LITERALLY) over J U N K to get into the car…it’s huge!
No longer will we have to squeeze in to open our car doors to jump in…inside our garage!
He was so pleased with himself, that he came in and announced, “Who wants to get in the car and back in and out with me?”!!! Dang, it looks good!
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Oh my word, that sounds like something my boys would say really loudly in the church parking lot as we’re loading up to head home! They haven’t said it (yet) but if they thought about it, I bet they would. Oi!
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Oh my! Joseph’s headless!
That is hysterical! When I was in seminary there was a a three year old boy on campus and on his calmest days he was hyper! I remember he stuck his head out of the van window, he had somehow wiggled out of his car seat, again, and he yelled, “Suckas!!” to all of us walking to the dining hall. Your story about your daughter brought back this funny memory.
And the fact that Joseph still has a string on his head is just as funny!
“Lord, please forgive me for throwing away that nativity scene. It’s just that, seeing Joseph without his head on was giving The Girl nightmares. Amen”
BAHAHAHAHAHA
Soo funny. I am sure you will cherish said place mat forever.
Ginger
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Peace out suckers! That is so gonna be my new phrase! And ya, the Joseph thing is pretty darn funny too. Heehee.
Oh, Lisa. . . I laughed. YES, OUT LOUD. And laughed, and laughed.
PEACE OUT SUCKERS! That is knee-slappin’ hilarious! And YES you should’ve went there!
Whadda you say we Republicans (oops! I can say that, huh?) adopt this for our slogan? SERIOUSLY!
And then Joseph’s head. Just what I needed today. (Sorry, Joseph.)
And YES! I have spring cleaned all I’m gonna’ clean til next spring.
And it all started with us getting DVR. Finally. There’s a blog post for you–It all started with the DVR. I cleaned my bedroom one entire day, windows (unexpected mildew included–ewww!), baseboards, walls, ceilings, curtains. . .
Kitchen cabinets inside and out, baseboards, area rugs, furniture, garage, storage room, closet. Probably more. But I’m tired now thinking about.
So I’m off.
“Peace” out SUCKERS!
Sorry. Couldn’t resist.
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this post had me laughing out loud! thx!! you are too cute…pease out sukers!!
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