Strokes of Brillance

Okay here is my second posting. I am hoping to make this regular to provide a good chuckle to those who are interested.

Let me tell you about a couple of "strokes of brillance" from today. Easter, one of my most favorite Holy days. I made parts of Easter dinner to take to the Patsey's house. I got the ham out and read the directions (ha, bet you thought I skipped that part), they told me I needed to remove the packaging, so I did; the black netting, pretty purple foily paper and then the plastic on the ham and put it in my pretty (new I might add) Pampered chef stonewear pan. Well after being in the oven for almost to hours, I took out the ham, it looked heavenly. I pulled off a piece and saw what looked like melted plastic on it. I pulled it off and didn't think much of it, then I was getting ready to start slicing the ham and noticed more melted plastic, apparently there was a piece of plastic on the end of the ham that I had no idea about!!!!! It melted on part of the ham and on to my new stone. Praise God, when it cooled it came right off the pan. WAHOO!! Note to self... check ham for extra plastic before baking.

But that wasn't my only stroke of brillance today! We were sitting around with the kids and singing preschool songs and I had my sweet baby Nannah (Savannah) in my lap. I was sitting right next to the table with the t.v. on it. We were singing a song that you turn the fire truck and lean, never dawned on me that I was sitting next to the corner of the table..... are you catching the picture, we turned that fire truck and banged Savannah's head into the corner. Fortunately it wasn't hard, and she has her mama's hard head. She didn't cry and I am quite certain that I felt worse than she did.

I am sure there were other moments that would make me a graduate of the school of "Well Duh!!" but I am going to stop at this for today.

Mini golfing with the kids.

I tell ya what!!! Being the competitive person that I am, not playing by "the rules" was very hard for me. Since it was a glow in the dark golf place, pictures would tough, also leaving the camera at home played a big part in none. Our kids seems to really enjoy golfing. Savannah would swing at the ball and barely make it move (that girl golfs like her mama :) ), Shea would hit the ball and then try a couple more times and just pick it up and put it in the hole and shout "I WON". After trying repeatedly to tell Savannah that the ball I was hitting was mama's, she finally got it. After I hit the ball she would pick it up and show me and yell "MAMA" and try to give me the ball. We were definitely done playing after just one round, we paid for 3. Savannah did not want to leave and fully flexed her princess muscles when it was time to go, daddy had to pick her up and carry her out of there kicking and screaming.