A Humorous Proposal

There is nothing like finding a little humor in the day! Especially when that humor happens to highlight a special event occuring that same day.

Today is a very special day for my oldest brother, Dennis, and his wife, Kim, as they celebrate 28 years of marriage. I have been truly blessed to see first hand the love they have for each other and the godly marriage they have created.

I know your asking, "so where does the humor come in?" Well, after seeing the movie Frozen (which I highly recommend) with Dave and the kids, we decided to head to Taco Bell for a quick lunch. I ordered my usual two crunchy taco supremes. On taco number two, I happened to look at the packet of Salsa Verde I had used and a smile came to my face. The packet said "will you marry me?" which I of course showed with a big smile on my face to my love, Dave. Then came the funny part. The next one I looked at said "I'm up for it if you are". I had to laugh and showed it to Dave as if it was a response to the previous "proposal". Finding humor in the whole thing, I looked at the last packet I had used and it said "you have chosen wisely". 

Its funny how on the day my brother and his wife are celebrating their marriage, a marriage proposal and response occurred on my sauce packets. Who knows maybe some day someone will be able to use those packets to do a real proposal but for today it made me smile and think of how blessed my brother and his wife are with their 28 years together and myself in my own 18 years of marriage.

Happy Anniversary Dennis and Kim!

Oh, and thank you Taco Bell for bringing some humor and love to my day.

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Family Love Notes

This Valentine's day our family project was to fill small pails made for each family member with hearts that had reasons why we loved that person written on them. After dinner, we opened the cards we had purchased for each other and then read our hearts. 

I loved all the ones I received but the two funniest I got were from Emily. She wrote a message on the front and a special little "p.s." on the back.

Heart #1: I love you because you are beautiful just the way u are

Heart #2 : I love u because you give my (should be me) great bear hugs

Now hold on......here comes the part that will make you laugh, the back side of the hearts

Heart #1: p.s. wear a bikini.  Emily has been nagging me about wearing a bikini with high heels for 2 summers now.  UGH!!!  I keep saying "do you know how old I am?" Talk about putting me outside my comfort zone.  She is still hoping for this to happen this summer.

Heart #2: Stop making chicken!! Hmmm.....that one speaks for itself.  I keep trying to explain the economics of eating chicken but she still isn't buying my answer.

These are Emily's favorite hearts:

 

Heart #1: I love how you take good care of Jingle

Heart #2: I love how much you want to be a fashion designer

These are Matt's two favorites:

Heart #1: I love how much you love the Titanic - the boy is obsessed with it. For valentine's day, we got him two Magic Tree House books about the Titanic. One is a story and the other a fact book. He was so happy!!

Heart #2: I love you because you try hard at school.  Matt says this reads " I love you because you love tornadoes.  In addition to his Titanic fascination, he is just as interested in tornadoes. 

This was a great family project. Now to start brainstorming about next year's valentine family project.  

To the Parents of.....

Today in the mail I received a letter addressed "To the Parents of Kathleen Wessel. 

When I first looked at it, I "misread" it. We get quite a few letters "To the Parents of Emily Wessel" that when I scanned this envelope my mind kind of  mentally corrected it thinking it was in regard Emily.  Then, as I looked at it again prior to opening it, I realize that it said my name. How weird?

I didn't bother looking to see who it was from I just went ahead and opened it and had to laugh.  

I've been invited to travel and study in Ireland, Wales, England and France in the summer of 2013 along with other junior high school students. Oh, to be a junior higher again but then the year would have to be 1980/81 - only 32 years ago. Ouch that hurts looking at that number!!

I would love to go ahead and travel the summer abroad but I don't think I'd pass for a junior higher nor would junior high students want to be with me. Also, I think Dave, Emily and Matt would not appreciate me leaving for the summer to travel and "learn".  It did make for a good laugh!  

My Comic Relief!

When God gave us Matt, He gave us a bit of comic relief that we're blessed with each day. Today God via Matt was blessing me often!

Matt is my homebody. He would stay home all day if he could. So, now he and I have a friendly "agreement" that before we begin any errands I tell him how many places are on the agenda. Oh, and I'm not allowed to deviate from that number (I've learned the hard way to pad the number by 2 just in case I decide to make an additional stop).  The places on today's list were not "Matt Friendly" - Ulta, Claire's, Michaels, Charming Charlie's and the food store. Mainly girly stuff!!

Ulta was our first stop. Outside the store he asked if this was a girl's store.  I told him yes but that I only need to get a few hair products so it would be quick.  When I opened the door, his comment was "oh, this is the store with the potions". What are potions? Perfume and cologne. I swear this boy squirted at least 20 sample bottles of "potion" on his little body.  When we left the store he said, "I like that store. I have 3 favorite stores, toy stores, furniture stores and potions."  I had to laugh! What I thought was going to start off badly went totally in the opposite direction. Believe it or not he actually allowed for us to go into two "unscheduled" stores at the mall one being Old Navy, a clothing store...talk about shocking.

As we were heading to the car, we got on the topic of Paris which led to the topic of romance.  Matt said in a very matter of fact voice, "I still don't know what girl I need. Whose a Christian and whose 7?" After I took the huge smile off my face, I told him not to worry God will send the right girl but 7 is not the age to worry about something like this. 

After we did a quick trip to Michael's, I promised a treat of frozen yogurt at Cups in Clifton. Sitting outside, eating our yogurt, Matt asked, "What is whiff?" I repeated "whiff?" to him.  I knew he was reading it off a store window....then it hit me - WiFi.  I told him its said WiFi and that means free Internet access. His response was "oh, cool!"

Like I said God blessed me with my own little comedian and today was an amazing day!  

You Have To Make Do

The kids have been doing educational workbooks during the summer in order to keep them fresh for the upcoming year.

In the morning, I pull their 2 pages for the day, place them on the dining room table and they are to be completed by the end of the day.

Now, Emily has no problem with taking the initiative and doing her pages on her own at some point throughout the day.  Matt on the other hand needs to be told several times, "homework".

Today he started his work while I was finishing up some of my garage sale organizing.  When I came upstairs from the basement, this is what I found. He was doing math and couldn't find his counters so he used his dominoes, the forks, spoons, my camera, the cup he was drinking from and his pencil pouch to get to the number 60. I'll give him props for creativity.

Oh, by the way, he did put all the things back himself once he completed the math problems. 

The Things Kids Say...

This morning while I was buttoning Matt's shirt before church I told him he was such a handsome boy and that some day a girl was going to fall in love with him and marry him. I also told him he could be a dad just like his dad. Then I asked how many kids he would have and he said "1,000". I said, "1,000?" He then said, "1,000 boys and 100 girls". I reacted with "that's a lot of kids". He responded, " I don't want to be a dad, I want to be a fireman." Our boy is very consistent in his future career. I did tell him he could be both...a dad and a fireman - no response from him. Matt always makes me smile with the things he says ..... he is my personal humorist.

Fast Feet!!

Matt came out of his room yesterday afternoon with not wings on his feet but Hess trucks. Too funny!!! With a smile on my face, all I could think was please do not let those trucks come out from under his feet and send him into flight. He only made it - very slowly - from his doorway to the door of the basement. I think it was such a slow go that he just gave up. I don't think he will be relying on that mode of "transportation" any time soon and that pleases me because all I could see is a trip to the ER in our future. :)

Officer Rick

Matt has become a huge fan of SWAT - the original series. He just can't get enough and Dave is more than happy to oblige him in producing more episode for him to watch. The other morning he came out of his room with his hat, badge, night stick (it is stuck in the back of his pants) and plastic gun (in the back with the night stick). The first thing out of his mouth was "Call me Officer Rick". I said, "Officer Rick?" He told me "Yes" that when he is dressed like this he is not Matthew anymore he is Officer Rick. So now all of you know, when you see Matt dressed this way don't call him Matthew.....it is Officer Rick. You gotta love his commitment!!