The Simple Womans's Daybook

For Today August 31, 2009

Outside my Window.....the sun is as bright and sitting at full rise. Today is due to be extremely hot. I have not been out yet my kids have and have reported hot, hot, hot.

I am Thinking....about a missing shirt, and where on earth could it be. This will drive me nuts until found or I break down and buy a new one.

I am Thankful for....my husband able to be home all weekend.

From the Learning rooms....Math and LLATL and music.

From the Kitchen....Eggs, grits and bacon fresh baked bread for toast. We love breakfast for dinner.

I am Wearing...Jeans and violin t-shirt with sneakers made for walking.

I am Creating....socks for Poppy, scarf as a Christmas for a nephew. I also have the quilt and afghan to complete when the weather cools.

I am Going...to orchestra I also have some very important time sensitive earns that must be done today.

I am Reading...Power of the Praying Mother. Doing a 30 day study with Amy.

I am Hoping...for a smoother time of than we had last year from here to the end of year. Some stability and unchanging daily living would be nice.

I am Praying....for our home and God's working in our Life's.

I am Hearing....school being done and lunch being cleaned up.

Around the house....new schedules coming into reality and the busyness of children with extra activities

A few plans for the rest of the week.....choir, orchestra and school.

Here is a picture thought I would like to share with you....waiting for cooler weather so I can enjoy sitting outside reading.


Thank you Peggy for the weekly reminder of life's simplicity. If you would like to take part or read more daybook's please visit Peggy at The Simple Woman's Daybooks

Black Concert Dress Complete!

If you have followed the daybook you have read about the famous black dress in the works for weeks now.

Poppy is excited and well she should be.

Poppy, Daddy, 3 brothers and mommy went to the fabric store just so...Little Poppy could pick out her special fabric for her special dress.

This was a big adventure for her, then she so patiently awaited mommy to make her very special dress.

If you could have heard her this morning as she walked in the sewing room to see the dress hanging awaiting her arrival.

Enough to make a mommies heart overflow.

Yes, it sparkles like stars in the night sky. All Poppy

Clean Slate

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Friday Funnies

How do these people survive life?



ONE Recently, when I went to McDonald's I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. "We don't have half dozen nuggets," said the teenager at the counter. "You don't?" I replied. "We only have six, nine, or twelve," was the reply. "So I can't order a half dozen nuggets, but I can order six?" "That's right." So I shook my head and ordered six McNuggets

TWO I was checking out at the local Wal-Mart with just a few items and the lady behind me put her things on the belt close to mine. I picked up one of those "dividers" that they keep by the cash register and placed it between our things so they wouldn't get mixed. After the girl had scanned all of my items, she picked up the "divider", looking it all over for the bar code so she could scan it. Not finding the bar code she said to me, "Do you know how much this is?" I said to her "I've changed my mind, I don't think I'll buy that today.." She said "OK," and I paid her for the things and left. She had no clue to what had just happened.

THREE A lady at work was seen putting a credit card into her floppy drive and pulling it out very quickly. When I inquired as to what she was doing, she said she was shopping on the Internet and they kept asking for a credit card number, so she was using the ATM "thingy."

FOUR I recently saw a distraught young lady weeping beside her car. "Do you need some help?" I asked. She replied, "I knew I ! Should have replaced the battery to this remote door unlocker. Now I can't get into my car. Do you think they (pointing to a distant convenience store) would have a battery to fit this?" "Hmmm, I dunno. Do you have an alarm, too?" I asked. "No, just this remote thingy," she answered, handing it and the car keys to me. As I took the key and manually unlocked the door, I replied, "Why don't you drive over there and check about the batteries. It's a long walk."

FIVE Several years ago, we had an Intern who was none too swift. One day she was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do? Just use copier machine paper, the secretary told her. With that, the intern took her last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five "blank" copies.

SIX A mother calls 911 very worried asking the dispatcher if she needs to take her kid to the emergency room, as the kid was eating ants. The dispatcher tells her to give the kid some Benadryl and should be fine, the mother says, I just gave him some ant killer..... Dispatcher: Rush him in to emergency! Life is tough.. it's tougher if you're stupid!

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Have a wonderful Blessed Friday

FINISHED THE SOCKS!!!!!

I am finally finished with my very first pair of knitted socks.

I am so surprised by myself.

I learned how to knit this pair from a pattern on the web, YouTube and a knitting books for kids.

I really had no confidence in myself, that I would pull it off.

These are going to be for Piglet.

So I have gotten brave enough to try a second pair for little Roo.

The list is growing with requests

Words and the confusion they cause

My husbands Uncle sent this to me. It sure did get me thinking about words.

THIS IS GREAT for wordsmiths !!! Read all the way to the
end............... This took a lot of work to put together!!!


You think English is easy???

Read to the end .. . ... a new twist


1) The bandage was wound around the wound.


2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The peasant decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to
present the present .

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?


Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant,
nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.



English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France .
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.


We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find
that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig
is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't
groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't
the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One
index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not
one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one
of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?



Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an
asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a
play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have
noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you
fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going
on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That
is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are
out, they are invisible.


PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?


You lovers of the English
language might enjoy this .

There is a two-letter word
that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is
'UP.'

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the
list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a
meeting, why does a topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the
officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a
report


We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the
silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the
house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times, the little word
has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets,
work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but
to be dressed UP is special.


And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped
UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the
proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized
dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about
thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list
of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if
you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a
hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP .
When the sun comes out, we say it is clearing UP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP for now my time is UP,
so........it is time to shut UP!

Oh . . . one more thing:



What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you do at
night? U-P