Killing a Fly with a Ukulele: Everybody Loves Toilet Paper

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.

24 August 2009

Everybody Loves Toilet Paper

Nat: Mum! Anna wasted the toilet paper! She's put it all over the toilet!

Me: Oh no, Did you waste the paper Anna?

Anna (thinking quickly, then grinning): And we wahfed (laughed) !!

7 comments:

Joy said...: Might as well give her some tape and let her decorate her room.

She is a quick thinker...wanting everyone to see the humor in her TP time.

Very cute,
♥
Joy; 24 August, 2009 10:03
Femina said...: I'm sensing a theme developing here...; 24 August, 2009 10:47
Swift Jan said...: At least she didn't flush the whole roll down the loo.... Ella has done that a few times now!! LOL; 24 August, 2009 11:19
Jen said...: What is it about TP that is so fun for kids to play with? I don't get it.; 25 August, 2009 03:54
Alison said...: Well, as long as everyone had a good time!; 25 August, 2009 04:34
Allegro ma non troppo said...: I can picture you walking down the hallway, stopping to survey the loo, and thinking, "That's exactly what I wanted to deal with for these next ten minutes. I was wondering how to spend that time."; 25 August, 2009 13:12
sewfunbymonique said...: Your posts are hilarious! Honestly, I miss those days. Kids are just out of the box thinkers and I love- now that they're older-the funny things they do.; 26 August, 2009 01:08

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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.

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24 August 2009

Everybody Loves Toilet Paper

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