the funnies

It seems like everyone has advice for me these days 

and while a lot of it is extremely helpful

some of it... well... makes me pick up the phone late at night and giggle with my mom.

Statements like:

"You know she isn't going to speak english"
"You know this is going to change your life forever."

"So you're going to Siberia.  You know that's one of the coldest places on the planet.  I googled it."

and my personal favourite:

"I was telling my friends Bob and Sue about what you're doing and I don't want to scare you BUT

they have some friends

who's sister knows a couple that adopted a little boy from Russia

and the doctors there said he was fine

and then years later he had some health problems

and now they wish they'd never adopted him."

(insert dramatic pause where we lock gazes)

"I hope that didn't scare you too much.  

I just thought you should be prepared."

(Oh my my my.  The things I wish I could have said to that fellow...)

At the studio tonight one of my little tappers asked how LB was.
I smiled and said she was doing well
and then the funniest thing came out of her mouth.
She said, "When (LB) gets home, will she call you Miss Candice just like us?"
"No, she'll call me mom"
"You wouldn't want her to call you by your real name?"
"Mom will be my real name to her."
hehehe so cute