Funny Family

It stinks when the rain falls all day. But I am very contemporary and decided to just take Espen outside anyway! And we were WET but smiling. I unfortunately left Puente outside for an hour in the rain because he NEVER barks in the rain and he was SOAKING wet. He has so much fur & he still smells... it is like punishment for forgetting him. Why does he bark all darn day but when it is raining outside he is quiet as can be? It is a weird thing the silence in the rain. He just lays there in the rain waiting. But anyother time he BARKS AND BARKS until I want to scream. The rain didn't get us down... we have rain boots & gear from Norway & we just went outside anyway!

We had to take care of an errand today & it again makes me want a fax/scanner/copier for my desk... but I got it done & mailed two UPS boxes! WONDER WOMAN!! That is right people I lugged 2 14x14x14 inch boxes to STAPLES that each weighed 19 pounds AND a squirmy 10 month old AND my purse AND the paper to fax IN THE RAIN. I am insane! And the husband of mine wonders WHY exactly I think I need a fax/scanner/copier.... he is crazy.

So I'm sitting here thinking about some food for dinner. Espen is in bed and the house is sort of a mess but I'm chatting online with my sister, Sherry. My sisters don't get to remain annonymous! And she is baking a special treat for her anniversary ~ it is a surprise & I am fairly certain that I didn't just give it away because I would think her hubby doesn't read my blog. SO anyway... her oven is BRAND NEW (remember she has a new house) and her cakes spilled over... so now she can test the self cleaning function! And when she went to test the cake with a toothpick, the pick went THROUGH THE PAN... good grief! She commented that thankfully the cake was done or it would have ran out the hole in the bottom of the pan. THAT IS FUNNY!

So it made me wonder outloud (online) to Sherry if we were from an accident prone or clumsy family. She has some funny stories of her own about falling (funny) and I am sure there are other such hiliarious stories! Here is one she shared that cracked me up...

One time I fell going to get the mail in flip flops, just walking along and fell... skinned up my arm, top of my foot and tore my flip flop off. "J" didn't believe me until he got home from work and I had damage and I don't know how it happened. I was just on the ground, in the gravel... FUNNY but DANG IT.

Who hasn't fallen & torn themselves up and wondered what the hell just happened!? So perhaps my "misfortune" at being so clumsy is just a family trait. Whatever it is, I can laugh at myself & my sister!!

But we also have been wondering if that old thing our mom used to say "stop running or my cake will fall" really applies. Sherry was NOT running! And when I am making a cake I yell at the dogs to stop running so my cake doesn't fall. I think a cake probably has just decided to do what it wants and tonight Sherry's cake decided "AH HA ~ a new oven.. I AM FALLING all over it!"

Espen has a thing for technology. BIG SURPRISE, the baby doesn't know TV as I don't let him watch it (we don't even have it on when he is awake) but he knows a camera or a phone when he sees one. For certain I am on the phone or taking pictures of him every day!! I think he even knows what to do with it as he holds a phone to his head (and he knows that either the land line or my cell belong at his head or punching buttons to send a message!). I haven't decided what to do with my old camera and I won't let him play with my new one (I'm scared we will break it). So I gave him the old one to play with! He is a smart little guy and knows I have one that he'd rather have. And in the meantime I can keep deciding what to do ~ maybe I should contact CANON again....

My final thought for today..... this house may actually sell..... Carrie & I just keep thinking the weirder it gets the more weird it gets.... try to understand that!!!