Newsflash!

Now hear this!!!! Heather has a black thumb! Not only does she kill plants, but she keeps them from growing in her garden. Does TRYING to grow a garden count???? or am I on that glowing road to you-know-where that is paved with good intentions?....and dead plants.

Seen and Heard in the Fuller Household......

At LoLo's Chicken & Waffles last Wednesday:
"Mah --um! I'm capable of ordering for myself!" - Jorja pointing to the jumbo platter....

"This place is a slice of Heaven!" Afton- mid-mouthful....

Everywhere in our home lately:

"That's RIDONCULOUS!"

Little Green Men Strike Again!

Well--it happened again.......the little people struck and our milk was green! This was much to the delight of our girls who wander throughout the house muttering aloud warnings for a week in advance to any leprechauns who might be listening nearby. "Our milk BETTER not be green again this year ......! We've put traps in the fridge....!"
This time, in addition to the green milk, there were pieces of green leprechaun gold left haphazardly in the fridge and in a trail on the kitchen floor. I remarked that we must have almost caught them in the act, because they seem to have left in a hurry, to which my clever husband added that he was almost overrun by what he thought was a giant green rat this morning! He also added that he must of scared the little guy half to death as he escaped quickly farting shamrocks all the way! This was infinitely amusing to my little ones and far better than any warnings they could have mustered.

The Latest Seen and Heard at the Fuller Household

Afton: "This year, when we start our new class in church, I think I'm graduating into the Violent 8's......."

No dear, I think that's Valiant 8's (for 8 yr-olds), but your teachers may agree more with you than with me!

Jorja: "Boy! You're Bunco Buddies sure must have been hungry!!" as she surveyed the table upon coming downstairs. Unbeknownst to her, I had already put most of the Lettuce Wraps, cake and candy away before she came down to raid.

"YOU GUYS REALLY HAVE A BAD ATTITUDE!!!!!!!!!" yelled from her bedroom after being sent to bed and being ignored after many attempts to lure Doug and I into her lair to read her yet ANOTHER bedtime story or give her water.

Breaking news...

I should have posted this back in December when it happened, but I am behind -so - better late than never. The Bonds had a Christmas party for adults and we all brought a White Elephant gift. I was feeling rushed and melancholy while getting ready for the party, so I picked up something at the Goodwill on the fly. Despite major expectations that I would, AGAIN, show up with something clown related, I came with something different and somewhat disturbing.

Amazingly enough, these two frightening creatures became the "hot thing" of the evening. I watched as three of my grown brothers fought over Watto and Darth Maul (I personally think it's odd that I know these names-but my brother-in-law Chris would be proud). There were claims that they were for the children (bring on the nightmares), but it became clear that the contest was closer to home. One brother threatened to never let another brother accompany him to the movies again, if he stole the objects of desire. Another kept claiming-"but they're for my boys".....Another -when confronted with the fact that he had no children, said they were for the children of the person he was in fact trying to steal them from. What?! After all was said and done, these objects that I figured I would probably be taking home with me, were hustled away and hidden by the victor, while others pouted and threatened to carry out aforementioned threats. Bonds are not the most gracious winners.

After that, we played a couple of games, the most amusing of which was where you had to come up with an answer about your spouse in one word that started with the first letter of your last name. The all-time favorite was when Carrie came up with "Beaches" when asked to describe her husband when they were first dating. My oldest brother looked on -mortified- as everyone else broke out into "Wind Beneath My Wings" and dubbed him "Uncle Beach"from there on out. His wife claimed it was a movie they saw at the time, but we were sure that it was a comment on his sensitivity-but I digress...

I think we came out the winners in general, because we went home with a highly amusing, if not somewhat twisted book of postcards called "Breaking bad news with baby animals". Inside are tons of adorable animals delivering news such as "You're bankrupt." You get the idea.....In honor of this highly amusing book, I thought I would come up with some of my own.