Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Happy Birthday Mr de Elba

I am the Mum.
If life was a circus, I would be the plate-juggling lady with monkeys on her shoulders who stands on one leg on a horse's back as it canters around the ring.

I am the Writer.
I use too many commas, dashes and dot-dot-dots, and I often start sentences with conjunctions because I like my blog to look the way it sounds in my mind.

I am the Hero.
Life is a bit like a superhero action comic, except that the superheroes are tiny children dressed in super-suits who possess no actual powers, while I just get them food, break up fights and clean their super-suits.

09 September 2008

Happy Birthday Mr de Elba

Happy Birthday to the Daddy who makes the BEST Shrek Band-Aids!

Here's what your son said this morning:

Sonny Ma-Jiminy: I've got a headache.
Me: Oh no, that's not good.
SMJ: It's from eating too much ice-cream.
Me: Wha-? But we've just had breakfast. You didn't eat any ice-cream. You can't have an ice-cream headache.
SMJ: I can. I ate too much ice-cream, and now I've got an Ice-Cream Headache. (pause) ... And a Bean Headache. From eating too many beans.
Me: Riiight.

9 comments:

Tracy P. said...: Oh, where can I get a package of those Shrek bandaids? We need some at our house!!

Did Mr de E serve a little breakfast of his own before the Mrs got up? (Or was it Sonny MJ who served an ice cream breakfast to Daddy for his birthday?) That boy has a headache because his brain is so busy!! :-)

Happy Birthday Mr de E!; 09 September, 2008 13:04
WheresMyAngels said...: Happy Birthday to him!; 09 September, 2008 15:03
tinsenpup said...: Ugh, I think I have a mess headache...from too much...yeah, you get the idea.; 09 September, 2008 18:58
Allegro ma non troppo said...: Happy Birthday, Mr Bandaid Maker Man.

I guess, to go with the theme, I have a Zinc Cream headache! (See my blog); 09 September, 2008 20:23
Swift Jan said...: Nice bandaid!! LOve it!!

Happy Birthday Mr de Elba :); 09 September, 2008 21:47
Jen said...: Aw, Happy Birthday. I hope it is an awesome day.
Hayden totally wants one of those band-aids. He is so jealous and screaming on the floor right now b/c he can't have one.; 09 September, 2008 22:37
Heather said...: First of all, Happy Birthday to Mr. de Elba!

Now, for his birthday, I've given YOU a blog award:

http://nobody-but-yourself.blogspot.com/2008/09/blog-bling.html

Cheers! :); 09 September, 2008 23:40
MaricrisG said...: That's just way too logical for a kid! :) I don't know where they get all this intelligent ideas, do you?!; 11 September, 2008 04:41
Joy said...: I have never, ever thought of drawing a picture on a bandaid. See this is what blogging is all about. The things we can learn from each other...I'm so impressed. I'm just waiting on the next skinned knee to show off this new idea.
That Mr. de Elba is definitely a keeper. Congratulations on your decade of marriage. You two are lovely together.; 11 September, 2008 13:42

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This is the story of me, Givinya de Elba, and my adventures with Mr de Elba, my children Buzz, Jessie, and Woody and our dog, Bullseye. We have plenty of good times, some weird times and a huge dose of drama.

Some of my posts are sad, lots are funny and sometimes I subject you to my pondering. We have our celebrations, when I write a decent poem I share it with you and when I'm held hostage, I do the occasional meme.

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I am a part-time speech pathologist, and try to cook, keep a garden alive and take photos that don’t make us look like we are pharmaceutically affected or dangerously homicidal.

I often suffer from Mumfail but I keep hanging on to the One who picks me up when I fall. If you email me, I’ll answer.

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No, they didn't.

They called me Katherine.

I go by Kate.

I came up with the pseudonym Givinya de Elba in highschool and it was based on a joke from an episode of Dad's Army called 'A Soldier's Farewell.'

In the episode, after eating too much toasted cheese, Captain Mainwaring dreams he is Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. I don't remember much about the episode other than Mainwaring telling his loyal men (Jones, Pike and Godfrey) that he has been exiled to the island of Elba.

Jones quips, "Hence the expression - Givin' ya the Elber!" (giving you the elbow, i.e., pushing you around.) I thought that Givinya de Elba was a half-decent pseudonym for someone who likes to joke and push people around, and I stuck with that.

My sweet niece ...

09 September 2008

Happy Birthday Mr de Elba

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