Confessions from Householdsix» funny http://confessionsfromhh6.com Military Life, Autism, Parenting Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:47:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wordless Wednesday – Sights from Vacation http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2011/06/wordless-wednesday-sights-from-vacation/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2011/06/wordless-wednesday-sights-from-vacation/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:30:42 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=4425

Yes, this is an actual town's name.

Local merchant. No political correctness here.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2011/06/wordless-wednesday-sights-from-vacation/feed/ 5 Literally http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/11/literally/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/11/literally/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:17:20 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=3361 read more »]]> Sometimes the boys say the funniest things, and they don’t even know they’re being funny. Usually it’s because they took a phrase literally. Over the weekend, there was a Kick Buttowski (a new favorite cartoon of theirs) marathon on Disney XD. Kick says, “Aw, biscuits,” when things don’t go his way. Perfectly acceptable in my book, especially compared to some things I’ve heard on kids’ shows. My 9 year old was watching an episode, and Kick had something go wrong, and he said, “Aw biscuits.” Kick’s dad then said, “Aw biscuits and gravy.” My son turned to my husband and says, “They like the same biscuits and gravy we do.” *face palm*

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]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/10/caption-this-photo/feed/ 6 Kids and Cell Phones http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/08/kids-and-cell-phones/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/08/kids-and-cell-phones/#comments Sat, 14 Aug 2010 07:08:37 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=2664 read more »]]> I let my three year old play with my phone when we’re eating out and he needs a distraction. He likes to draw or play with the calculator. Sometimes he goes online and plays on the Nick Jr. site. The other day however, he had a new trick. I got an e-mail from a friend asking if I’d changed my number because she got a message in Spanish, and it went so fast, you could only pick up a couple words. Then I made a mental note to call Verizon and figure out what he did to my voice mail, but not right then since it was almost bedtime for the kids and dinner time for my husband and I.

Yesterday I got a call from the ABA therapist with the same thing, only he had gotten an actual person. So I looked in my recent calls and I saw where my son had dialed * and some numbers. I called Verizon to see what was up. It turns out he forwarded my calls to Los Bizcochos catering service in Puerto Rico. Oops. Lesson learned. Pay more attention to what the kid is doing with my phone so no one calls Puerto Rico.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/08/kids-and-cell-phones/feed/ 5 Wildlife Strikes Again http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/08/wildlife-strikes-again/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/08/wildlife-strikes-again/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:00:50 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=2622 read more »]]> The wildlife on post strikes again. Our first Halloween here, the squirrels and/or bunnies ate our pumpkins. I have a deep suspicion it was the squirrels. Now I got a strawberry pot. It had four plants. There was evidence of digging in the main area of the pot, and now there’s only one plant in a side slot. The squirrels strike again. I swear, between the kids and the squirrels, we can’t have anything.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/08/wildlife-strikes-again/feed/ 7 I Have a Campaign for Keurig http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/05/i-have-a-campaign-for-keurig/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/05/i-have-a-campaign-for-keurig/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 12:55:28 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=2295 read more »]]> “So easy even a three year old can use it.”

While I took 30 seconds to myself to go pee the other day, Aaron took it upon himself to make himself a cup of tea. He took out the used Kcup that was in the machine from the last person to use it, threw it away, put in the new tea Kcup, put his Star Wars cup in the correct position to catch the tea, and pushed the button. Thankfully it was on a setting that his cup didn’t overflow. Since I realized my child has gorilla arms and can reach the Keurig to make a cup even though we have it pushed back as far on the counter as it will go, I unplugged the machine. Good thing I unplugged it. When I went to show my husband, there was a new Kcup in the machine where Aaron had tried to make another cup of coffee.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2010/05/i-have-a-campaign-for-keurig/feed/ 2 Kids on Age http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/10/kids-on-age/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/10/kids-on-age/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:53:00 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=1205 read more »]]> Z: “Mom, how old are you?”
Me: “I”m 29 for about another month, why?”
Z: “Some of the other kids don’t believe me when I tell them that.”
Me: “What kids?”
Z: “The boy next door. He says you’re 40′s or 50′s like his parents.”
Me: “Zach, I’ve told you he’s a little jerkface that you don’t need to be hanging around. And just because his parents are probably close to the ages of your GRANDPARENTS doesn’t mean that I am too.”
Z: “Well how old are grandma and grandpa?”
Me: “MY parents (my in laws are considerably older) are 47 and 53. I’m willing to bet that’s about how old most of your friends’ PARENTS are. “
Z: “No way???? Yeah, most of my friends’ parents are OLD.”

So now I expect some phone calls while he tells all the other kids how old their parents are because his grandparents are the same ages. I’ll be laughing on the inside while playing serious parent on the outside – maybe. I might laugh on the outside. Depends on the parent and how much of a little heathen their child is.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/10/kids-on-age/feed/ 2 School Pictures http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/10/school-pictures/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/10/school-pictures/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:53:00 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=1196 read more »]]> I always hesitate to purchase the packages from LifeTouch that the school offers. Their photographers seem to have always missed photography 101. In Kindergarten my son had art class before pictures and they had his whole shirt in the picture complete with white paint. In the first grade Spring pictures they used too much of a gaussian blur, a filter, a PS action, something, and it was blurry and my kid looked stoned. Every.single.frikken.year. he comes home with that fake smile.

This year I told my son to say an “M” word like “Monkey butts” to elicit a more natural smile. The photographer waned him to say “cheese.” Evidently an argument ensued between my third grader and the adult photographer, and my son refused to smile because he wasn’t going to fake smile because Mom said he’d “better not.” This is the resulting photo, and I’m keeping them because the story is hilarious. I laughed so hard when my son told it, I cried.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/10/school-pictures/feed/ 7 Nuts http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/09/nuts/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/09/nuts/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:28:00 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=1176 read more »]]> Last night we went to Jigsy’s for pizza per our usual Wednesday routine. The dessert on the buffet was brownies with walnuts. After finishing dinner, I went and got one for myself and a small one for Aaron. He didn’t want it, so I asked Zach if he’d like it while waiting for more white pizza. Zach takes a bite of the brownie and exclaims,”Well this is one way to get me to eat my nuts!” Of course acting like 12 year olds, my husband and I died laughing. Oh the innocence of childhood.

]]> http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/09/nuts/feed/ 4 Cookies http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/08/cookies/ http://confessionsfromhh6.com/2009/08/cookies/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:44:00 +0000 Amanda http://confessionsfromhh6.com/?p=1159 read more »]]> We were all getting some snacks one afternoon over the weekend when my 2 year old requested cookies. OK. So we got him a cookie. No, that’s not what he wanted. So we got him one of the other kind of cookies we had, and he didn’t want that either. Frustrated, I finally told him “Show me.” My 2year old opens the cabinet where we keep the snacks and pulls out a bag of pretzels and says, “Cookie!” Hanging our heads in parental defeat, my husband and I explain that those are pretzels. So now when our 2 year old asks for a cookie, we have to clarify if he means cookie or pretzel. I’ll be glad when we’re done with 2.

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