Interesting...

This morning, my mom showed me a bird's nest she moved from the yard to the patio. She liked it because it was full of colorful trash, so she put it on the patio for others to see. She showed me this morning because it had a toad nestled in it's damp, round hole.
"Look at this, Grace! there's a toad in this nest!"
"Oh no! looks like we're going to have some Basilisk problems!"
"Huh?"
"um... nevermind."
Hours later, he was still there, so I moved him from the sun and took some pictures.

...in which I crack myself up about the Church of the Latter-day Saints... AGAIN

Timmy: So now I have to drive to Wichita, work out, drive home, get all dressed up, and then drive ALL the way back out here for my piano final before going to Bible study!

Me: Ooh! so you'll be all dressed up for Bible study?

Timmy: Psh! No! I don't want to be all dressed up for Bible study!

Me: Why not? You'll look like a little Mormon!

Timmy: Your mom's a Mormon!

Me: Don't you mean, my Moms' are Mormons?

Happy Mothers' Day!

This Mothers' day, I wanted to post about my own mother. I decided to pick one small aspect of my mother that I love: her dictionary. My mom has her own personal repertoire of words at her disposal, words that others seldom use, and words that no one else ever has used. Although we often tease her about her vocabulary, this is a very unique trait that makes her who she is. I'm sure my siblings will agree that we enjoy getting to know my mother better as we try to decipher the Alice Page Dictionary.

Here are just a few entries:

Supiy Money - Extra cash saved up for an emergency. The Quechua Indian word supiy means "fart" and originally was used in the Denny family to describe money that one sat on to hide during a board game so others would not know how much they had. Now it can be applied to any object saved and hidden.

Drape - A person who loves to put heavy curtains over all their windows, leaving their house dark and musty.

Chinsey - Cheap, lacking quality

Hoity-toity - higher-class, or unnecessary extravagance

White Patty/ Heifer - a derrogatory term for a white girl

Joelly-Bolly - a nickname for Joel. (occasionally Paully-bally)

Ouchywawa! - an exclamation reserved for when a child gets hurt. Often the child will stop crying and laugh at the word.

Oblong - Not a square, not a circle, not a triangle. Sometimes used to describe rectangles.

A Couple - two or three