A Couple Giggles

There were a couple things that really made me giggle this weekend. I thought I'd share them, simply because my weekend has been pretty blech otherwise. You gotta focus on the positive, ya know?

I've been talking to the girls about courtship and dating, and some of the differences between the two. It's not a topic that we spend much time on, but occasionally something will come up and I take the opportunity to just talk with them. Well, apparently what we talk about ends up as fodder for their imaginary play with each other and their friends. I overheard one of the girls' friends say, "Oh, I have the most wonderful news! We are being boarded!", to which Moo graciously corrected "courted...we are being courted...not boarded"...and they were off and running with their pretend scenario. It was all I could do to keep from snorting. Moo thought it was pretty funny too, but for Belle and her little friend's sake, she held it together.

The other funny moment came when my folks and Grandma came over for dinner. We were discussing health, supplements and vaccines, and my Grandma said "ya know, there is a new flu that they are talking about down in Texas. The heiney flu...there is even a vaccine shot for it and everything...". As is often the case with my Gram, I had to sift and sort through the information she gave me to decode this tidbit she was sharing about the "heiney" flu. (We are frequently kept on our toes as my Grandma has been speaking in code for a very LONG time--lots of pronouns and adjectives and very few proper names are ever used in her stories. I learned long ago that someone could be called "the big one", "the little one" and "that one" all in the same story...and it is just up to the unsuspecting listener to figure it out.) Back to the heiney flu. It suddenly came to me...I envisioned dozens of little old ladies and little old men, staring at the cable news station ticker as the headlines passed across the bottom of the screen...and what would H1N1 look like? HiNi--Heiny flu. Classic.