.: Admiring Others

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Admiring Others

This seems to be my week for blogging. I figure I may as well go for it and work on catching up since I had a 'no blogging vacation' during May and June. The boys are off school for 2 weeks and since there are no commitments such as activities, things on at school, having to make lunches and stick to a routine (it is so nice for the break!) it gives me a little more freedom - and a little more time on the computer.

My visiting teaching companion is a very sweet 83 year old lady named 'Winnie Flavell-Mott'. It is thanks to her that I get my visiting teaching done so regularly. She will always call me at the beginning of each month to see when I can pick her up to go and visit our assigned sisters. I'm very grateful for her because if it was left up to me I would get caught up in life and probably not be a very reliable visiting teacher. I have really enjoyed getting to know Winnie over the past year. I like to joke about how she has educated me so well on all the bladder problems I can expect to have when I reach her age!

Winnie spends a lot of time knitting and she makes some really lovely things. She recently showed me 2 jumpers she knitted for her grandchildren and I was so impressed I had to take photos of them. It's amazing to me that she knits without any patterns and just lets the ideas come to her once she begins making something. These two jumpers could easily be sold for a couple of hundred dollars they are so good, but she only enjoys knitting for her family.

I forgot to mention that Winnie is Maori. The funny green looking 'things' are called Maori tiki's - they are made out of green stone and worn by the Maori's as a necklace. The tiki is believed to have magic powers. It is also a good luck charm and represents the unborn human embryo.

There are lots of designs and symbols in the Maori culture. The designs like the ones on the jumper are abstract forms of nature depicting its rhythmic and cyclic patterns.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Winnie is so clever! No patterns! I laughed out loud re the old age bladder probs!

This has been a very cultural blog =)

Juila; July 13, 2010 at 3:37 PM

Funny Comments

Ashton walking into the supermarket quietly whispers to himself: "Please can I have macaroni and cheese, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Ashton: "I want to live with Jesus." Mummy: "Why?" Ashton: "Because he be nice to me and he gives me bread and water!"

Mummy, examining Ashton's legs, and thinking: My goodness, what hairy legs. Ashton, unimpressed with Mummy's examination, pulls away: "Don't touch them. I'm growing Daddy legs!"

Hayden gets upset at Ashton: "Right Ashton, that's it! I'm telling Jesus on you!"

Ashton with a cold: "I'm snotty as a piggy."

Hayden: "The sun is burning my eyeballs."

Hayden: "Mummy, how come your penis is missing?"

Hayden: "I get the bigger piece of cake because my skeleton is bigger."

Hayden (3yrs old) sees me get dressed in the morning and stares at my breasts with a confused look..."What thooooose be for???"

Hayden: "I don't want to finish my pizza, it's got blood all over it."

Hayden: "Ashton hit me in the heart."

Hayden learns the planets at Preschool: Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Penus!

Hayden (shopping with me and whining): "My brain hurts forever because you haven't buyed me anything."

QUOTES

Like the changing leaves of fall...My little boy is now a man.
--Author Unknown

Boys are God's way of telling you that your house is too neat!
--Author Unknown

There never has been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between a mother and a son.
--Author Unknown

Boys are found everywhere - on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
--Alan Marshall Beck

Something For A Giggle....

I Owe My Mother ....

My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

My mother taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why."

My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

My mother taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

My mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. "Stop acting like your father!"

My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home."

My mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going to get it when you get home!"

My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."

My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

My mother taught me HUMOR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT. "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father."

My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

My mother taught me about JUSTICE. "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!