Five on Tuesday*

*Thank you Carpool Queen for letting me borrow your format for a day. (I wonder if I should have asked...hmm...)

1. At Awana Quiz Bowl the other night, we were watching Book One compete (and be totally dominated by chair 3) when the quizzer asked, "What did God create on the 7th day?" and chair 10 jolted upright and "smashed his buzzer" as he had been instructed to do. He was called to the microphone to answer, where he confidently declared, "He didn't create nothin', 'cause it was the rest day!"

2. It not only looks like spring around here, it smells and feels and sounds like it, too! Now what could I eat that would taste like spring...hmm...

3. Mike and Rebecca were jumping on the trampoline last night. When Mike "bounced" her once, she came down weird and started wailing. She said her knee "bent the way it's not supposed to bend." Now we have to figure out if she's seriously hurt or just enjoying limping.
Not to imply that anyone in my family would ever milk an injury for sympathy. Ahem.

4. Did you know I'm going to Slovenia?!?! Do you know where Slovenia is? Google it!

5. When Jessica signed up for Winter Jam Friday night, I thought it sounded like a lot of fun. But once she left that afternoon, I started to feel uneasy, wondering if she would actually enjoy a 4+ hour concert (having never been to any concert before) especially since she had only heard of one of the bands. She did enjoy it, she said, but it was really loud and really crowded and she couldn't understand some of the words. And they didn't eat supper on the way, like we thought they would; they told them to buy food at the arena. My child bought a funnel cake. Which fell upside-down on the floor before it was half-eaten. They finally ate supper at midnight.  They were supposed to get home around 12:45 a.m., which sounded really late, but I figured it was a special event, right? Mike had to leave at 7 the next morning, so I volunteered to pick her up from the church. (Yeah, he owes me.) I went ahead and went to bed around 10:30, to get what rest I could, but texted Jessica every now and then (SO glad we Santa got her a phone for Christmas.) and was tensely listening for the phone but trying not to keep Mike awake, so around 1:00 I went to the living room and texted her to find out if they were almost here. She said, "I just saw a sign for Shongaloo." Shongaloo!!! That's, like, an hour from here!! And yes, that's how long it took. She called me from the church at 2. We were some t-i-r-e-d girls the next day. I'm not sure I'm caught up yet, as evidenced by this random blog post.