well well well-
lets just say that my days are filled with laughter thanks to this blog.
one more reason why uncle ben would fit in in Uganda....
in conversation they hum allll the time! "How are you" "im fine" "hmm". The hum at the end signifies that they are done speaking and the exchange is over. wouldnt uncle ben do great here!! "mmmm Enock... jesus didnt die on a rabbit, he died on a crrrrross... mmmm"
and i agree with heather that the cross shouldnt be made into candy in the first place! and uncle tom- i am actually quite proud of EVERYONE in this family and dont mind my friends reading the comments... except the only problem is that they dont find the comments remotely comical. i guess you just need nesterwhack blood in you to find the humor. or maybe its just that you need to know uncle ben?
i love you all so so much and appreciate all your support and comments more than you can even realize. be well!
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HMMMMMM - It's nice to have you on our blog Katie - hmmmmm - Super Bowl is being played in Miami this year Katie - hmmmmm
I think the real reason you are writing on our blog is to rub our frostbitten noses in the fact that your butt is sitting an inch from the equator and we are suffering in 20 below weather today. Think of us on your weekend excursion.
We are all insanely proud of you too and you are so right about needing nesterwhack blood to understand the silliness. I laugh thinking of the confused looks on your friends faces as they read through the 34 posts.
I had to tell you the miracle that occurred here. Aunt Gina convinced Ben that he should honor Heather's convictions this Easter and she should be able to do whatever she wants. He called to tell her yesterday. I'm surprised it's not snowing in Uganda. Although often with Ben, if he's not totally convinced, it's just a matter of time until he lapses back to being Ben. We'll see what he does at Easter when he is surrounded by bunny eaters.
I just have one question for Eric. Did you go to school in shorts in this artic weather????
Aunt Mary Kay, Ben will only say that when my mom is there pressuring him though. Last night he was ranting and raving about Heather wanting a bunny instead of a cross again. Then my mom got on his case and he said it was ok. Then he flipped out about it again.
I'm not really trusting that Ben has had such a change of mind.
As far as the arctic weather....I came home this afternoon and had a cup of coffee to warm me up. Thankfully it was a decaf because I wouldn't want to be a caffeine freak!
Amy, did you also have coffee this morning, at lunch, at the WAWA before taking Sarah to school, at the 7-11 after taking her to school, to go at the diner before getting the kids, at Burger King before coming back home? It doesn't matter if all this coffee had caffeine or not. One cup of decaf makes you a non caffeine freak and will keep your marriage safe (unlike our cousins down south).
Did you have a cough drop with that?
I think Heather is right. Ben might as well get a chocolate crown of thorns. If I am in Ocean City on Easter (I plan to be), Heather and I will sit down and enjoy a chocolate rabbit. We will look with disfavor upon all those who make light of the instrument upon which Our Lord was executed. Those who eat chocolate crosses will certainly go to hell. Extra hot kiss for you, Uncle Ben.
Nice to hear from you, Kate. Keep learning to cook. When you get back, you should open a Ugandan Restaurant. Your Dad says he is willing to finance it.
Gee Mike, How nice of you to want to finance such an endeaver for Katie. You are a very good father thinking of her that way.
Years ago, as a joke, when I was in the chocolate making mode, I found a lollipop mold that was a woman with big boobs. I was making a joke with Joe about somethink and ended up making him a few chocolate lollipops with this mold.
Joe didn't even eat them, but we did get a big laugh out of the joke.
I used that situation this week to speak with Ben about the bunny situation. I explained to him how I could turn chocolate into this kind of ridiculous and embarrassing thing. Bunny, cross, boobs, it is all chocolate. I did tell him that if he bothered Heather, I would be tempted to make him some lollipops with this kind of ridiculous theme.
I make him say, "Bunnies, cross or boobs, it is all just chocolate."
I just keep reiterating that people are allowed to "think" as they choose. And that adults allow other people to experience their own way of thinking, while children want everybody to think like they do.
This puts Ben in such a big quandary. For if he eats crosses, which is an "adult" behavior, then he must also allow others to think as they would like. If he wants to tell others what to think, then he himself has to eat bunnies, because that behavior is childlike.
Ben seems to listen to this argument and it did seem to shut him up for a little while. And in the end, he says that Heather will be eating a bunny on Easter. He doesn't like it, but he seems resolved to it.
I am proud of his "adult" efforts.
And I do want to say that Joe and I are not helping Ben's "coffee" habit. I bought him a large coffee at Wawa yesterday (flavored of course), instead of him perking any. Then Joe bought him some today even though he had perked some in the morning. We are so bad, as Wawa coffee's are big in our home and Ben just joins right in.
However, This week Joe and I don't have any liquor in the house for Ben to drink, and he hasn't asked for any. So he has not had a drink since being here.
Extra coffee, no liquor. I guess it is a trade off.
Well, I will probably be with you Uncle Jim, with a nice large chocolate bunny as well. (Although really, chocolate crosses are melted down chocolate bunnies, so what IS the difference?)
I think Ben likes Crosses because there is more chocolate. It is bigger and he just wants more chocolate.
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