From the mouths of babes...

[tmc_otter]

We are trying to save money by planning meals around what we have in the house and we still had a frozen turkey from last year, so... Jeff cooked a turkey dinner on Friday.  We fixed all of the trimmings, including pumkin pie.  We called it "Thanks-o-ween".  In honor of Halloween, we went around the table and each person admitted a fear.  Jeff is

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[rdprice29]

*squishes Jo*

wait...don't you like in Kansas? Poor thing. I don't blame her, I share the same pathological fear. Soon after RJ was born, I had to spend 2 weeks in Wichita for work, and I was deathly terrified the whole time a tornado was going to swoop down on me. The guys at work didn't help by saying it was too late in the year for them (it was in early December) and then running a drill for the damn things anyway!

I had to go back for an audit in the late summer the next year and thought I'd have a heart attack. There's no way in hell I could ever live in tornado alley. The occasional warnings/actual touch downs we get here in Maryland are enough to send me whimpering in the basement.

:)

[tmc_otter]

I'm originally from Iowa and we had tornados there, too. I would freak being in your area, nearer so many national security threats. It's always something, isn't it! ;)

[rdprice29]

*snicker* Yeah, it's always something.

However, I have an 'in' on the national security stuff...my dad works for the Dept of Defense in the chemical weapons demarcation program (we live right next to the 2nd largest chemical weapons stockpile in the US, Edgewood Arsenal, and he was basically in charge of making sure the center was secure on 9/11, just to give you an idea of what he does), so he's able to cut 99.9% of the crap report on by the tv stations that are just basically trying to freak us out. I know I don't have to worry until he comes home with gas masks sized to fit my kids. ;p

But tornados...*shivers* Nope, couldn't do it.

[tmc_otter]

Jo is 9, going on 25. She reads at a very high level and has a vocabulary beyond her years.

Ants are only creepy if they sting. Big, hairy spiders freak me the heck out. I've seen them so big I've refused to kill them with a shoe because I would have puked at the sight of the "squish".

*shudders*

stomach: rolls

[ktmarsh]

I don't know why that gave me the giggles, but it did. LOL.

[tmc_otter]

We thought it was hilarious, we had a hard time keeping ourselves from laughing at her. Yesterday she went on a rant about boys playing a game in PE unfairly. She said "I wasn't even supposed to be in the game because my partner was in the bathroom. They took advantage of the fact I was alone!"

[harrysmom]

Oh my! She knows what she knows and she told you!
Too cute!!
*hugs*

[tmc_otter]

It killed me the way it just rolled off of her tongue. She hadn't had to scramble to find the word and she didn't mispronounce it, either.

Meanwhile, she finds it impossible to stay on task when she has to fold her own laundry...

*hugs back*

[harrysmom]

Ok, I just got really confused as we have the same layout and I couldn't figure out why my flist was 'wrong'.
*is doofus*

[tmc_otter]

I was so ready for a "dark and frightening" layout, as I've been in a rather dark mood recently.

[harrysmom]

same here!