7 reasons not to mess with children...

Most of you have probably already seen this...but if you haven't...;) Pass it on!

A little girl was talking to her teacher about whales. The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human because even though it was a very large mammal its throat was very small. The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale. Irritated, the teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human; it was physically impossible. The little girl said, 'When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah'. The teacher asked, 'What if Jonah didn't go to heaven?' The little girl replied, 'Then you ask him'. A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they were drawing. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's work. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, 'I'm drawing God.' The teacher paused and said, 'But no one knows what God looks like'. Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, 'They will in a minute'. A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten Commandments with her five and six year olds. After explaining the commandment to 'honour' thy Father and thy Mother, she asked, 'Is there a commandment that teaches us how to treat our brothers and sisters?' Without missing a beat one little boy (the oldest of a family) answered, 'Thou shall not kill.' One day a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast on her brunette head. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, 'Why are some of your hairs white, Mum?' Her mother replied, 'Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white.' The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then said, 'Mummy, how come ALL of grandma's hairs are white?' The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture. 'Just think how nice it will be to look at it when you are all grown up and say, 'There's Jennifer, she's a lawyer,' or 'That's Michael, He's a doctor.' A small voice at the back of the room rang out, 'And there's the teacher, she's dead.' A teacher was giving a lesson on the circulation of the blood. Trying to make the matter clearer, she said, 'Now, class, if I stood on my head, the blood, as you know, would run into it, and I would turn red in the face.' 'Yes,' the class said. 'Then why is it that while I am standing upright in the ordinary position the blood doesn't run into my feet?' A little fellow shouted, 'Cause your feet ain't empty'. The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: 'Take only ONE . God is watching.' Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies. A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples'.

Tangled: Movie Review

I just had to do this. I was thinking about just posting up pictures from the movie, but decided I might as well review it as well. :) (plus, I had to tell Nana how much I actually like this movie)

Ok, so this is basically the story of Rapunzel. But what was really great about this movie is that they didn't just stick with the usual plot -- A mom needs a plant because she's sick, the dad goes off to steal it from a witches garden, then the witch keeps her locked up in a tower once she's born. This plot makes MUCH MORE SENSE. Again, definitely the best Disney princess movie. If any of y'all have watched The Princess and the Frog, you'll know how...uhh...weird...the plot was in that. A little disturbing, in my opinion. But believe me, Tangled is 100x better.

So, here's the basic storyline: There are a queen and king and a golden flower. The flower has the ability to heal and keep someone young forever. Then there's Mother Gothel. She's an old lady that tries to hide the flower to use it all for herself. But the queen gets sick...like really sick and the people start looking for the flower to make her better. Once they find it, they give it to the queen and she gets better. Then Rapunzel is born.

But Mother Gothel realizes that her flower is gone. She kidnaps Rapunzel to use her hair, which contains the magic flower's power. Rapunzel grows up and doesn't know who she is. All she know is that her "Mother" wants to keep her in the tower forever...supposedly to keep her safe. (see? Isn't this witch's reason to keep Rapunzel much better then the original story's?)

But that's when the handsome thief Flynn Rider appears...

And Rapunzel realizes that the outside world really isn't as scary as "Mother" had said it was.

I'll leave the rest for you to find out...so watch this! The animation is really great! None of the other Disney princess movies have animation like this one...and Rapunzel's hair is perfect. Then the characters are all perfect. And this story is different. There isn't any handsome prince in this one...:)

Oh, and the soundtrack is also really good. Look in my playlist for the songs sung by Mandy Moore and you can listen to some of the songs. :)

My Rating?

Characters: *********** (LOVE these characters)

Plot: ********* (ok...yeah...the plot's really good too...)

Overall rating: ******************** (you get the point. :P)

We watched this movie twice in 2 days. So believe me, it's pretty good. :D We were ready to compare this with Megamind and How to Train You Dragon...and it ended up passing pretty well. So check it out! See if you like it!

Rambling...

I'm done with school (for today)! I know, it's early...scarily early. Like I'm never done with school this early. I like being done with school...but then I have nothing to do! I'm so used to having tons of schoolwork, then when I'm finally done I don't have much to do. I could read, but I'm just reading a biography/theological/pretty good book. I mean, during Lent I decided to try to read books like that. I read unPlanned and now I'm reading He Leadeth Me. Both are very good books, but something about them doesn't make them as...exciting and fun to read as...Waking Rose, for example.

Anyway...right now I'm in a quiet house. Gab's running, Josie's reading, Mom's in the basement exercising, and Annette's taunting a wasp through the window...trying to find a way to spray it with wasp killer without getting stung.

I guess this was just a rambling post...bye!

(somehow Annette is trying to run outside and in, getting all her stuff, without attracting the wasp's attention...)

Saturday Morning Daybook

hosted by Miss Jo March @ Scraps from my workbasket

Date... April 2nd, 2011

Starting time... 10:10 AM

Mood... Excited! Happy...hungry...

Outside my window... It's GORGEOUS. Blue sky, puffy clouds, flowers, cherry trees that the blossoms are falling off....

I'm thinking... about the spring football game that we're going to later today!

I'm currently reading... He Leadeth Me (look on my sidebar) by Fr. Walter Cizek...(I think that's it?)

I'm listening to...Morning sounds: Bug wanting something, pancakes being fried, the butter thing opening...

I'm wearing...Jeans, UVA shirt...

I'm looking forward to...The game! and Sunday...

I'm hoping... that my history/Bible reading will get done fast...

Yesterday, I...watched Tangled. It was good! Definitely the best of the Disney Princesses...the animation was really cool too.

I'm hungry for...Well...I'm half done with breakfast...I want more pancakes. :)

The song stuck inside my head is...None really.

I love...French Toast!

I loathe... When my hair goes wild. :P

This week, my goal is...to practice an etude enough that I can get ride of it...because I've had it FOREVER!

Did I meet last week's goal?... well...uhh...I can't say I've mastered 10th position yet...that'll probably take a while :D

Ending time...10:19

Gmail Motion...

Have you seen it? Gmail has a new way of typing!

Check out the video, and then go here and try it out! This is hilarious...try it out, EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A WEBCAM...believe me, it will be worth it. :P

April Fools...and bad news...

Happy April Fools Day!!!

(yes, the header is supposed to be like that)

Now...for the bad news part. This is what we have reason to be UNhappy about...

"Some protesters spend more than five days a week picketing outside Planned Parenthood's...offices. But what they might not realize is that their actions have raised thousands of dollars for the organization.

Through Planned Parenthood's Pledge-a-Picket program, those protesters are helping the organization more than they're hurting it. That's because donors have agreed to make a pledge of financial support to Planned Parenthood for every protester that shows up outside.

...

"If there are a lot of picketers, we get a lot more money for our services here."

Last year, the Pledge-A-Picket program brought in more than $20,000 for Planned Parenthood in Virginia. [The] money is used to help low-income patients get preventative reproductive health care services.

"The intention was to pare down the picketers so they wouldn't be as intimidating to the women who are actually trying to seek reproductive preventative health care services."

[And anti-abortionist here] says that the success of the Pledge-A-Picket program means the protesters are doing something right. "We're having an effect. If they're trying to seek money for us being out there, that probably means they're losing money in another sense."

Sad, isn't it? Planned Parenthood now have donor-people that will donate money for each protestor out there. In other words, by protesting in front of the Planned Parenthood building, people are now pretty much making money for their cause...I guess all we can do is pray harder. (sorry, I had to cut out some of the words...)

Now I know what they felt like 65 years ago...

...because now our MICROWAVE doesn't work.

I can now relate to the problems of those living back then: running up and down to use the downstairs microwave, using the stove way more often, and trying to eat colder things more often.

What do you think? Would you use it anyway?

(it says "Do Not Use Microwave (on pain of death)")

I don't think I'll risk it...