It is raining so at least I don't have to water the garden and the car is being showered.

Hubby is watching a strange programme on telly, not sure what but there seems to be subtitles involved. One child in his room still, another glued to his game boy!

So I am going to do an hours worth of sewing as I haven't done any yet today, talk eldest into washing up, which is supposed to be one of his chores but he seems to conveniently forget, and make sure youngest gets to bed at a reasonable time tonight.

All in all it has been a productive day. Tomorrow I have a funeral to go to which will not be pleasant but no doubt I will cope with.

So I will bid you all a good night for now and see you all when I get back tomorrow.

Another email that was sent to me. Enjoy!

Answers given by 2nd grade school children to the following questions!!!

Why did God make mothers?
1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mum just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice
in the world and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from
men's bones. Then they mostly use string, I think.

Why did God give you Your mother & not some other mum?
1. We're related.

2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's mums like me.

What kind of little girl was your mum?

1. My mum has always been my mum and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty
bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mum need to know about dad before she married him?

1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get
drunk on beer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mum marry your dad?

1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mum eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him.
3. My grandma says that Mum didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?

1. Mum doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a
goof ball.
2. Mum. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mum is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between mums & dads?
1. Mums work at work and work at home & dads just go to work at work.
2. Mums know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3. Dads are taller & stronger, but mums have all the real power 'cause that's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Mums have magic, they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mum do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mum perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plastic surgery.
2. Diet. You know, her hair. I'd diet, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your Mum, what would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of that.
2. I'd make my Mum smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those
invisible eyes on the back of her head.

This was emailed to me a while ago. I know a lot of you had to work today so thought it might put a smile on your faces. Enjoy

With the exception of my DH everyone is home and in their various rooms under the threat of something serious happening if they dare so much as make a mess of downstairs! I have spent today:

sorting out the cupboard that refuses to shut anymore
Sorting out the drawer that is in danger of collapsing
Cleaning the conservatory
Cleaning and sorting the rubbish on the computer table
Cleaning the laminate floor in dining room
Dusting and polishing computer table and items in the living room
Hoovering all of downstairs
Cleaning cooker
Cleaning kitchen floor
Cleaning sink
hoovering kitchen.

I have evicted a few spiders and their webs that seem to have sprung up over the last couple of days (peril of living near a wood). I have got rid of 2 bags of rubbish (yes the cupboard and drawer were that bad). I only hope there was nothing in there that was that important, hubby is a hoarder and it drives me insane! I am now exhausted. Of course there is still the bathroom and my bedroom to still do but that can wait until tomorrow they are not that bad!

Hubby due home soon so better do my domestic Goddess bit and cook some dinner.

Dropped eldest off at summer school and decided to go to Asda and fill up with petrol and pick up a few things for tea tonight. Coaxing the car up the hill and into the road that leads to Asda (car seriously needs petrol at this point), head towards the petrol station when youngest screams "Mum stop! Stop!"

"Not now dear, mummy needs petrol"
"Mum stoooopppppppp!" by this time I can hear him panicing.

Pull up beside pump and there is blood everywhere, all over him, the seat - you get the picture.

He points to his nose "I'm having a nose bleed" he says " and it is all over my shirt".

Give him a tissue, good job I have a supply in the car, clear him up as best as I can, while he sits and holds his nose bemoaning the fact that he has blood on his spiderman t shirt!

Got into Asda, eventually, he runs to the toilets to clean himself up, I get what I need for tea plus some cleaning things to clean the blood off the car seats - bless him.

Posting this as when this picture was sent to me it followed on from a discussion that I had with a friend about allowing your other half to look at people of the opposite sex.

Would you allow your husband/wife/partner to look at someone of the opposite sex while they were with you?
Would you point someone that was looking nice or that you thought was good looking out to them?

My husband friends think I am unusual. I call them the football family as they are like an extended family. Despite the fact that they live miles away from us, we see them regularly during the footie season. I get on really well with them, in fact I prefer mixing with them rather than their wives at gatherings. We have fun together, we chat on the phone, they tell me things which they probably wouldn't even discuss with their wives. When hubby comes home from the footie he will tell me all the gossip, who is having problems etc and they know he does this.

The other reason why they think I am strange is because I never get offended if hubby comments or looks at another woman while we are out. Often he will point someone out to me and say "she looks nice, like that dress" or "she needs to have a haircut" or he will admire certain bits of a woman's body as they pass him. I will look at men and probably do the same thing. We tell each other if we have seen anything funny while we were out.

He came home the other day and told me about something he saw in broad daylight. He was taking a short cut home. This goes down a winding road, surrounded by farmland on the edge of town, when cars in front of him were slowing down - unusual as ppl tend to speed along this stretch. Then he saw them. two naturists walking down the street, not noticing that ppl were gawping at them, even if they did notice they hid it well. Hubby said it wasn't the fact that they were naked that made him look it was the amount of piercings both of them had on their bodies!

I don't see the point in getting offended about it. I know he will look, he is human at the end of the day, we all look at some point at other ppl so why not do it when your partner is there and talk about it. The photo above reminded me a lot of this when it was sent - one of hubby's friend went abroad with his family last year, lots of topless/naked bodies on the beach and his wife told him she would leave if she caught him looking at anyone. He says he was very uncomfortable, there was no where for him to look without looking at someone, so he lay there with eyes shut and his wife sat next to him in her bikini. Most of his friends wives are like this.

Perhaps I am strange.

Would like to here other's thoughts about this.