LOL- Is Anyone Laughing?

Is Anyone Laughing?

In my miamaid class which consists of girls who are 14 and 15 yr old girls we have an activity each week. Where we do something fun but also has a learning principle either practical or doctrinal. We all have various senses of humor and mine can lean on the snarky side. Working with beautiful wonderful girls they also can be highly hormonal due to all the changes in their bodies as well as things that come about in their homes and at school. We thought an activity like this would help us get to know one another's laughing points and understand each other better.

The Sunday prior to our week day activity I asked them to research and find you tube videos that were funny and humorous. (no swearing or any other in appropriate things) and to also come with some stories that they would share of something funny that happened to them personally.

The night was a GREAT SUCCESS the howls of laughter permeated the room and we even had a few belly laughs that lead to tears! These girls are hilarious!! We entered our room and sat around a table and we first talked about what is funny.  We then watched some of the video links that each of the girls had brought in and that set the setting! We talked about and shared each others funny stories that happened to each of us and the girls all shared in laughing with and not laughing AT! We also learned to be observant of each other.

I bought jolly ranchers (jolly) and Laffy Taffy. Did you know that Laffy Taffy has jokes on the wrappers? They do and they were funny! WE also had a few popsicles that had jokes on the sticks and read a few of those.

I read a few remarks and quotes from Russell Wilcox "Is Anyone Laughing?"   Cutting remarks are really hurting.

Putting someone down is no way to build a friendship. People may chuckle at a put down to save face but deep down negative humor hurts.
"Keeping a sense of humor helps us endure the trials of life. It is truly medicine to the soul. " True friends help you feel better about yourself.


A good way to know if your comments are building or hurting is how many times do you have to follow your comments with "just kidding" or Love you, mean it Just kidding is a cop out. God did not send us here to degrate each other but to bless each other. (D&C 108:7

Elder Marvin J. Ashton in the New Era March 2009 Sometimes the humor in my family crosses over and the teasing turns to hurt. There are questions and answers about humor and how to deal with things if friends or family hurt your feelings. They need to know their behavior is not ok and gives ideas how to help this.
Have a better relationship so that you are able to distinguish between being hurtful and playful.
Love and Serve
Don't say Hurtful things, talk to the person and be an example.
"One of the adversary's tactics in the latter days is to stirring up hatred among the children of men. He loves to see us criticize each other, make fun of and generally pick on each other. The way we treat the members of our family is as important as are some of the more noticeable gospel principles.

We also played fun games! One of my favorite games is where everyone gets a balloon blows it up ties it to your leg with a string or ribbon and you have to protect your balloon while still trying to pop another person's balloon.  We also had a balloon relay where you blow your balloon up, tie it off and be the first to pop it.  I also brought saltine crackers and we shoved them into our mouths and had to be the first to whistle. Silly funny games that got the girls to relax, let their guards down, and let each other in.

Stores are giving away FREE GRILLS

Grilling tips

As every Southerner knows, now that's it's spring, it's time to get ready for that all-important cooking technique of the south --- outdoor grilling!

I have just found out there are several stores (not just in the South) where you can get a FREE Bar-B-Q grill! You can get a free BBQ grill from any of the following stores:

A&P
Albertsons
Costco
Food Lion
Home Depot
Ingles
Big Lots
Lowes
Piggly Wiggly
Publix
Safeway
Sam's Club
Target
Trader Joe's
Wal-Mart
Winn-Dixie

Food Depot
K-Mart
B J's
Walgreen's
Rite Aid
Food World
Bruno's
CVS
Kroger






I especially like the higher rack -- which can be used for keeping things warm!

Just make sure to get a metal one ... the plastic ones don't do so well.

Ya'll enjoy now, ya heeya!

TRICK bike

It was fun to share this post, "Dragged through the Dirt", I thought I would share another Goose moment.
Warrior had recently celebrated his 8th birthday and he received a sweet "trick" bike. It was complete with front and rear pegs. Warrior had asked, begged and pleaded for a bike jump and finally his incessant pleas wore down my impish fears. It looked a lot like this bike!

Warrior involved me in all of his miniscule and grande accomplishments on his bike. "Look mom, no hands", Look mom, no feet. Look, Mom, I'm standing, Look mom, I'm standing with NO hands". As the days went by he grew bolder, more confident and more skillful. His enthusiasm was infectious. It spread through the house like a cheese fart on a hot summer day. (yeah, bask in that for a moment). (compliments of Mr. Incredible) I won't be asking him for any more analogies.
He had two older boys who were at the house teaching him some bike jumps. They started with the basics and then they got all fancy. I watched and praised the boys as they did their stunts. They flattered me and gave me a false sense of confidence.
"You can do this Mrs. Goose, You can do it! It's not hard. Here watch" The words echoed and were chanted over and over. A bit more coaxing and a few more demonstrations of exactly how I needed to perform this jump.

I went for it, with trepidation. I mounted the bike like a seasoned bull rider. I was focussed. I was determined. I approached the jump and I quickly slammed on the brakes and came to an impressive tire skidding halt.

"I'm scared, I'm a chicken", I cried.

the boys in unison, "You can do it, just go over it".

"ok", I hesitantly responded.

Up the driveway I pedal encouraging and convincing myself every inch of the way that indeed I could do it.

Deep breath in, blow it out, hands gripped on handle bars so tightly that my knuckles are white.
I build up speed, I approach the jump and this time I do not chicken out.
The second my front wheel comes off the jump it plummets and drives itself immediately to the ground. There is no soaring. Well, unless you count my body. The front bike wheel hit the ground directly in front of the jump. My body propelled itself completely over the handle bars and my chest rolled over the front wheel and hit the ground in front of the bike with such force and such power that I thought the earth shook. I basically did a head over heals complete body twist in the air. My body hit the ground with a breath jolting force. It knocked the wind out of me. BUT it definitely did not knock my pride. I put my faith in a metal object and was under the false belief that a bike named monGOOSE would not fail me.
GOOSE and Mongoose are completely different and there is NO LOVE there!
The boys came running to the end of the drive. I immediately got up, laughing barely. "Are you alright, Mrs. Goose, Are you alright Mrs. Goose"? Mom, are you ok?
Yeah, I squeaked out. I couldn't talk, I tried to walk, but I just had to bend over and get some air. I was hurting but I had 3 boys intensely looking at me.

Sadly, there was a Scott's lawn man treating my neighbors yard.
He saw it and he yells out, Mam, are you alright?.
I scowl at him and wave him off like a pestering fly.
NO more jumps for me. They didn't bother to tell me that I needed to make sure that my bike pedals were up and not down. My pedal had snagged the jump! "GEE THANKS"
I imagined it looked similar to this.