Quotable Quotes

I guess I haven't been paying enough attention lately because I haven't thought of anything to post lately. I guess it's part of the Winter blahs. At any rate, I do have a couple of quotes from the day.

On the way home from school, Brantley says to me, "Mom, you know what I found out today. Icing makes me sick." He told me that he ate a cookie that had icing on it and it made his tummy hurt. I said that it was just as well, because icing isn't good for you anyway.

Brantley crawled into bed before I finished my workout on the treadmill, so I went in his room to say good night and he said, "Are you all sweaty? 'Cause if you are, don't come hug me." Well, I love you too.

Happy hump day!

The History Channel

My child watches the history channel. There, I said it. I think it's great. History was never one of my interests or strong points. This morning he started watching the history channel and it was the "Heartland Explosion" episode about a high decibel boom rocked houses in Kokomo Indiana. I started watching and heard someone say April 16, 2008. Hmmm.....wasn't that when the earthquake was? Since I wrote a blog entry about it, it was easy to look up. The earthquake was April 18th. Coincidence? I think not.

Basketball Update

Getting up at the crack of dawn on a Saturday is not my idea of fun. Brantley had the 8:00 game this morning, and since they haven't had practice or a game in 3 weeks, coach wanted them there at 7:15 to warm up. It was a good idea because it didn't look like any of them had picked up a basketball since the last game, but it was tough getting out of bed this morning. They started out the game on fire and I thought it was going to be a blow out, but the other team came back and tied it up after our best player hit his scoring limit. They are limited to 16 points and then can't shoot any more. I'm not sure the other players knew that he couldn't shoot because they kept passing it to him. I was really hoping we wouldn't have to go to overtime. The team pulled it out with a 28-24 win. Brantley did score a basket in the first period and got to play point guard a couple times in the fourth quarter. I think he's the only other player that has gotten to play point guard besides the coach's son. Go Huskers!

On another sports note, I believe that Uncle Matt is running in the S"No"W Fun run right now. Wish him luck! If if hadn't been for Brantley's game, Lawson would probably be there with you. Maybe we should re-think this whole basketball thing.

Hermie

Well, it happened today. Brantley went into the living room and started looking in Hermie's aquarium and asked, 'Where's Hermie?" So I went over and asked him how long it had been since he looked at Hermie. He couldn't remember. So, I opened up the aquarium and showed Brantley that Hermie had died. I don't think at first he was really all that upset, but after he thought about it, he was. He didn't cry or anything, but he held Hermie's empty shell for a while. Maybe next time we go to Alabama, we'll go back to Calypso's and get Hermie II.