Which one is it?

I was looking for something in a cabinet today and came across a ring I purchased in Japan many years ago for approximately $5 at a grocery store. Here's the sad part: it looks EXACTLY like my wedding band. Exactly. So it's quiz time: which one is which?

Ring A:

Ring B:

Give up?

Keep going . . .

The answer is . . .

Ring A is the real deal.

But really, could you even tell?

So our next door neighbors opened a retail jewelry store this year. They sent us a Christmas card that was really a thinly veiled invitation to come to them for "all of our jewelry needs." What they haven't seemed to figure out in the six years we've lived here is this:

WE HAVE NO JEWELRY NEEDS! NONE!

If we did, we could just fulfill them all at the grocery store.

p.s. I did these photos against the faux wood grain of our faux wood table just to drive the point home as hard as I could. This is the kind of people we are. Faux.

Summer Etymology

This summer, M asked me out of the blue, "what does popsa mean?"

Popsa, popsa, what the heck is popsa? I frantically consulted my mental dictionary.

"Well," pipes up E, "I know that cle [kll] means 'cold,' so popsa must mean 'nice and.' "

Get it? Popsicle=nice and cold.

"No," corrects M, "I think popsa means 'hard and colorful and.' "

Now you know.

Tooie's First Prayer

Tooie spontaneously burst out in prayer last night after his sister said the official version of the family prayer. Here's a transcript of it:

Heavenly Father.

Grateful . . . day.

Not be 'cared of monsters . . . and . . . white . . . alligators.

Jesus Christ.

Amen.

What goes on in that teeny-tiny head of his, I wonder.

Quiz Time!Gi

E and M were working on making alphabet books the other day. See if you can identify all of these drawings by E that start with the letter A:

1.

2:

3:

4:

Give up yet? Here are the answers: 1=apple (duh) 2=Appaloosa 3=Ariel (duh again, for all you mermaid fans) 4=animal

These kids crack us up. That's when they're not driving us crazy.