There are times when we all could use a laugh.   For those who need one, I’d like to share a laugh with you today.

When I picked up my daughter from school this week, her question caught me off guard.  (This is as close to what was said as I can remember — wish I had a tape recorder some times!)

As we walked to my car she asked, “What’s a witch’s stand, Mommy?”

“What?  I’m not sure I understood that right, Sweetheart.  What did you say?”

“Witch’s stand.  What is it?  We talk about it at school every day.”

“You do?”  (I started wondering what the heck they were teaching in kindergarten these days.)

“Yeah, every time we say the Pledge of Allegiance.”  

At this point I couldn’t help laughing.  I stopped right there to give her a big hug.  It was a much needed laugh.

(For my readers not familiar with the Pledge of Allegiance, it starts off  “I pledge allegiance to the flag, of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands….”

Need a few more laughs?  Check out how they misunderstood one of the Veggie Tale songs.

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They say laughter is good medicine.  And I think kids write the best prescriptions….

This week I’m thankful for the things my kids have done and said that made me laugh.

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My daughter was hard at work at the kitchen table.  “How do you spell ‘slippery’?” she asked.

I carefully spelled it for her.

Then she asked how to spell ‘floor.’  By then she had my interest.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

Turns out she was making a sign for the floor.  She had spilled some water, and evidently to a 5 year-old it is easier to make a detailed sign to let people know the floor is wet than to wipe it up with a towel.

Got to love it.

Then there is my son.  Daddy was helping him back into his clothes for bedtime, and he said, “I need my funderwear.”

It sounded a lot like “fun to wear,” and you know, with superheroes all over them, I bet they are fun to wear.  (I see a great marketing thing here, if someone wants to jump on it, we just want a little cut for the 3 year-old’s college fund…)

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What funny things have your kids said or done this week?  I’d love to hear about it in the comments!

And, as always, if you have your own thankful post this week, be sure to link it up with us!  I love to see the list grow!

Shared on these great blogs: Black Tag Diaries, The Fontenot Four, Six by the Bay

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Need a Friday laugh?  Here are a few of my favorite funny things they’ve said lately…

My 5 year-old, holding up a toy of hers that keeps coming apart:   “I wish we still had the constructions for this…”  When I looked at her kind of funny, she added, “You know, the constructions that tell you how to put it together….”

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At lunch yesterday we were eating some left over chicken.  The 5 year-old asked if it was really chicken…  I went through the fact that chicken comes from chickens and turkey, like we had at Thanksgiving, really was a turkey.

Then I asked my 3 year-old, “And if we have beef?”     His answer?  “A beaver!”

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And finally, as we were watching a video, the 5 year-old said, “Mommy, did you know ear wax tastes nasty?”

Yes, that’s 5 year-old wisdom at it’s finest.

What funny things have your kids said lately?

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It was a rough day on the ol’ mommy-ego.

We were playing store today.  My little girl was running the cash register and I played the part of various shoppers.

At one point she said, “Now pretend to be a beautiful woman, Mommy.”

I laughed and said, “Oh, I have to pretend to be beautiful?”

“Yes, Mommy, you’ll have to pretend to be beautiful.”

(Really, she said I have to pretend?  I mean, look how great I looked after my trip to their beauty shop this summer!)

The sting of that was just going away as we started getting ready for bed.   After reading one book together, my husband took our daughter and I took our son to read their second book and sing lullabies.

That’s when my son, who has always been momma’s boy, told me, “Don’t want Mommy!  Bad Mommy!”

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The 5 year-old was much more willing to touch the “pumpkin guts” this year…scooping out tons of pumpkin seeds.  The 3 year-old?  Not so much.

I was elbow deep in pumpkin guts when the phone rang.

“Whoever it is can just leave a message,” I said.

That’s when little man heard Daddy’s voice on the answering machine.  He raced to the phone, mumbled something, and hung up.

The phone rang again almost immediately.

Once again my husband’s voice came on the machine, and once again little guy raced to the phone.

The third time it happened, I started thinking, “Okay, by now he should realize I can’t get to the phone…”

The phone rang 6 times — and only stopped when Monkey didn’t hang the phone up correctly.

Turns out people at the office were getting a good laugh at little guy’s phone manners, or lack there of when he’d pick up the phone and hang it up just as fast.

After carving out the faces, the kids added some details to their pumpkins with paint (with glitter added to Peanut’s paint).  As I started cleaning up the table afterwards, the phone rang again.  Since I hadn’t gotten to call my husband back yet, I figured it was him.

This time our daughter raced to the phone, picking it up before the answering machine could get it.

After saying hello, she hung up.

Just when I was starting to think that we really needed to work on phone manners, she told me, “It was the 1900’s, they wanted to talk about America…”

(Yes, I think we’ve had plenty of political phone calls, which I usually ignore and say are 800 numbers…)

I love kids.

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Somehow the subject of hair came up.  (Papaw is bald.)  He mentioned that he used to have blonde hair like hers.  And he told her he used to wear it in a ponytail.

“I used to be an old hippie,” he laughed.

The look on Peanut’s face as we all laughed was priceless.   Even better was when she threw her hands out to the side and said, “I don’t get it.”

Before we left there was a little issue over some toys that OneDaddy’s brother was packing up to take home with him.  When Peanut realized her daddy  wanted some of them, she said, “It’s okay, Daddy, you can play with some of my princess dolls instead.” 

What have your kids said lately to make you smile?

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