Growing Versions

I am hopeless at sewing, so hopeless that my home economic teacher told me to stop whining when I completely bungled my sewing projects.  I am still not sure why they did not just teach us how to hem pants and darn socks.  That would have gone a lot farther.  Anyhow, my kids are more willing and able to learn how to sew. Their grandmother helped them make pot holders for my birthday present. I was very impressed and the sewing puns kept us in stitches. It was sew funny, you had be there, I sewpose. You should have sewn it.

My daughter made up a joke the other day.  Instead of running in circles, you can also run in rectangles, or diamonds or octagons. We are very fortunate to live very close to our kids' school.  We live no more than 500 metres from door to door.   Despite the short distance between home and school, my son still finds a way to make the run  500 metres longer than it is for the rest of us. As we amble along, he sprints ahead, up the hill, down the other side, across the top and back down again.   Indeed, he proves you can run in ovals, triangles and hexagons too.

We were watching one of my daughter's favourite shows yesterday when one of the characters proceeded to play charades.  He confessed, after none of the other characters could guess what he was doing, that he was a "snowman grinding coffee beans" (of course!) I spit out my coffee (and expelled it through my nose, if you must know) upon hearing this line.  It was so ridiculously funny.  I love unexpected belly laughs that contort my whole body. A surge of laughter that springs on me a new spurt of blood flow through the tips of me-- the outer edges of which can go months without a platelet-changing-of-the-guard. When was the last time you were taken off guard by a deep down laugh?

I forgot, but this year I've been reminded.  Food colouring is a really important ingredient to April Fool's Jokes.  It keeps coming up.  I've opened the food colouring package for the first time in years.  It will be really funny when the green coffee comes out of the machine.  So funny. So many more possibilities...