Just some Meanderings(you didn't think I really had them did you?)

Well, I just got done reading the blogs of some of the people in our ward and busted a gut. I wish I could write stuff like that. But then it also brings into sharp relief how much I don't seem to notice or give enough attention to in my own life. I'm sure my kids are as cute and funny....I just can't remember when. Has working and schooling full-time just blinded me to my family or have I always been this oblivious? Don't ask Michelle...I think she'd agree with the later.

Anyway, I've discovered that there are a great many movies from my childhood that I wanted my kids to see. Partly because I remember them being good and partly because I'm a big movie-quoter. So it was that I set out with zeal to acquire Mary Poppins. I think it's a movie everyone should see at least once in their life if not more. I finally won an ebay auction and my dvd arrived. Our family has now watched it at least 10 times in like 2 weeks. I know my kids have watched it twice in the same day at least once. After watching it the last time, I decided I needed to make the every popular "Things that we learn from" list. So with no further ado....

Things we learn from Mary Poppins

1. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down....but it doesn't make it taste any better.
2. Laughter is good for the soul but leaves footprints on the ceiling.
3. When destroying your children's good intentions, use a garbage can not a fireplace.
4. Spending less than 10 minutes a day with your children causes you to go through a lot of nannies.
5. Sometimes we have to get sacked to see beyond the end of our own noses.
6. Go fly a kite...just not in too dense of a neighborhood, around power lines, or in Eagle Mountain.
7. If you can afford a cook, a housekeeper and a nannie, I have little sympathy for your troubles.
8. Don't fall in love with a magic nanny or you'll spend your life working a dozen or more odd jobs waiting for her to settle down.
9. Women only want to settle down with men who have a direction in life.
10. Dick Van Dyke was a master and less crude than Jim Carrey.
11. Don't draw on the sidewalk in London...it rains too much there.
12. When you don't know what to say, muttering jibberish works and makes you feel better.
13. We still don't know the name of his other leg!
14. Witches fly on brooms, nannies use umbrellas.
15. They say it's luck that rubs off but it's really just soot.
and finally
16. There is a place near Suffock Bridge that's popular with jumpers.

I'm sure there a plenty more but it's late and I'm tired. Goodnight.