Tag: humor
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Quips and Quotes and Giggles Galore!
Gimme Some Bling! I’ve decided that my 7-year old son thinks too much. The other day he came to me and asked, “Mom, how do I get a gold tooth?” “Those are called ‘grills,” I said. “Okay…” he responded. “But how do I get them?” I thought about this for a second and said, “I…
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Earlier this week, I broke my iPhone. Sorta. That is to say that sometimes it’s broken and other times it works fine. So it’s only sorta broken…”half broke,” as I prefer to say. The long and short of it is that I left my iPhone on a surface that I shouldn’t have and, even as…
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My Next Bike Will Be a Tricycle
Whoever said ‘As easy as riding a bike’ never tried riding my bike. ~ Chatty Cathie I am absolutely convinced that my local hospital emergency room has a file with my name on it, flagged with a ginormous red flag. Why the red flag, you wonder? What does it signify? In my imagination, that red…
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An Accident Waiting to Happen
Accidents happen. To most people in most families, accidents are one of those things that randomly occur and you look back at the oddness of the situation and laugh at the uniqueness of the circumstances that led to the accident. In my family, however, I come from a long line of accident-prone people. Calamity just…
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Special Edition Sunday – The Liebster Blog Award!
Oh yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I’ve arrived! After nearly three long months of writing and hoping someone is reading, I’ve finally been noticed! That’s right! I’ve been nominated for The Liebster Blog Award! My first blog award ever! WOOOOOHOOOO! Okay….Breathe, Cathie! Breathe! I’d like to thank The Academy… Scratch that. There is no Academy. I’d like…
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Quips and Quotes Friday
Grammar is my “thing.” Listening to someone use incorrect grammar is very much like listening to someone scratch fingernails down a chalkboard. It “hurts” my ears in the same way. For that reason, I really work hard to be sure my children understand how to communication correctly. The other day, 7-year old Braden was trying…
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The Wit and Wisdom of Braden (Part One)
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” ~ Oscar Wilde There are days when I wish I could crawl inside my son’s head and figure out why and how he thinks like he does. The things that come out of his mouth totally blow me away most days. Most…
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What the…What?
It’s Wednesday, and I’d like to introduce a new weekly feature here at Chatty Cathie’s Endless Chatter…What the…What? Wednesday! Each Wednesday, I’ll bring you amusing images, articles and anecdotes I’ve run across in the previous weeks that are sure to give you a double-take and make you wonder what in the world people were thinking!…
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Mommy Always Knows Best!
My children fight constantly. I guess most siblings do, but I never thought that my children would be at such constant odds with nearly nine years between them. Thinking back, I have a really good idea when it started. It all began with an incident back when Braden was about ten months old and Amber…
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