13 May 2007

Brennan (8 years old) had a couple of really nasty mosquito bites on his right arm that i noticed during Sacrament Meeting because he wouldn't stop scratching them.  So i took him home to coat them in Calamine Lotion and cover them in band-aids so that he would leave them alone. 

While i was gone Ashlyn noticed that Brennan and i were gone and she asked Aunt Lou where we were.  Lou explained where we had gone and after thinking about it Ashlyn leaned over and said, "I wonder if he is on METH?!" 

Apparently Ashlyn had just had her "Meth Class" at school that week and learned that Meth addicts hallucinate and scratch sores on their skin.  Needless to say, i had a hard time keeping a straight face during Church after i heard what Ashlyn, then 11 years old, had said!!  =)

Gonna Be A Bear...

Today while clearing off my ScrapDesk, i waded through a pile of school memorabilia from Ashlyn's 6th & 7th grade years of school.  After completing the pocket pages for this memorabilia, i starting tucking items into the pockets only to find this "story" written by Ashlyn when she was in 7th grade.  It is titled, "Gonna Be a Bear" and here it is.


In this life, I'm a woman.  In my next life, I'd like to come back as a bear.  When you're a bear you get to hibernate.  You do nothing but sleep for six months.  I could deal with that.


Before you hibernate you are supposed to eat yourself stupid.  I could deal with that too.  When you're a girl bear your birth children are the size of walnuts while you're sleeping, and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly, cubs.  I could definitely deal with that.


If you're a mama bear everyone knows you mean business.  You swat anyone who bothers your cubs.  If your cubs get out of line you swat them too.  I could deal with that.


If you are a bear, your mate expects you to wake up growling.  He expects that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.


Yup!  I'm going to be a bear!

This made me giggle myself silly!!!  =)