I did the Macarena with a pickle because I’m Awesome .. .. .. August 21, 2008

Sometimes, just when I’m about to ask my friends to stop forwarding e-mails, a forwarded message lands in my Inbox that amuses me. Sometimes, there’s a real winner in there. For instance, I recently received a forwarded message from a childhood friend. I almost didn’t open it because a message with the title “I licked a monster because Big Bird told me to and he’s my leader…” - even from a known address - is quite suspect. It’s a silly exercise, really, but it seems to be universally enjoyable. 

So here it is. Copy and paste into an e-mail send it to your friends with a subject line created from the criteria - corresponding phrases.

Pick the month you were born:
January–I kicked
February–I loved
March—I karate chopped
April—-I licked
May—-I jumped on
June—-I smelled
July—-I did the Macarena With
August—I had lunch with
September-I danced with
October–I sang to
November–I yelled at
December–I ran over

Pick the day (number) you were born on:
1—a birdbath
2—a monster
3—a phone
4—a fork
5—a snowman
6—a gangster
7—my cell phone
8—my dog
9—my best friend’s boyfriend
10—my neighbor
11—my science teacher
12—a banana
13—a fireman
14—a stuffed animal
15—a goat
16—a pickle
17—your mom
18– -a spoon
19— a smurf
20—a baseball bat
21—a ninja
22—Chuck Norris
23—a noodle
24—a squirrel
25—a football player
26—my sister
27—my brother
28—an iPOD
29—a surfer
30—a llama
31—A homeless guy

Pick the color of shirt you are wearing:
White—because I’m cool like that
Black—because that’s how I roll.
Pink—-because I’m NOT crazy.
Red—-because the voices told me to ..
Blue—-because I’m sexy and I do what I want
Green—because I think I need some serious help.
Purple—because I’m AWESOME!
Gray—-because Big Bird said to and he’s my leader.
Yellow–because someone offered me 1,000,000 dollars
Orange—because my family thinks I’m stupid anyway.
Brown—because I can.
Other—because I’m a Ninja !
None—-because I can’t control myself .

Now type out the sentence you made in the subject line and send it to your friends. Don’t forget to send it back to the person that sent it to you!

The blind boy August 18, 2008

Have a Blessed Day

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said: “I am blind, please help.” There were only a few coins in the hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, “Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?”

The man said, “I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way.”
What he had written was: “Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it.”

Do you think the first sign and the second sign were saying the same thing?

Of course both signs told people the boy was blind. But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively.

Invite others towards good with wisdom. Live life with no excuse and love with no regrets. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile. Face your past without regret. Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear. Keep the faith and drop the fear.

Great men say, “Life has to be an incessant process of repair and reconstruction, of discarding evil and developing goodness…. In the journey of life, if you want to travel without fear, you must have the ticket of a good conscience.”

The most beautiful thing is to see a person smiling…
And even more beautiful is, knowing that you are the reason behind it!!!

Women Should Not Have Children After 35! August 17, 2008

Women Should Not Have Children After 35!
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This is one of those controversial statements
But I fully stand behind it.

Women should not have children after 35!

I strongly believe that I can back up this statement with sound 
psychological, medical, and financial data.

Some say, “Of course women can have children after 35!” 

They don’t know what they are talking about and I can guarantee 
they have had very little experience in the matter.

I don’t care what the doctor says.
I don’t care what your friends say.
I don’t even care what your pastor says.

Women should not have children after 35!

I don’t advise it, I vehemently recommend against it, and loudly 
and even at times rudely tell people “don’t even consider it.”

You can quote me on this. If you want to say that 
the writer of MountainWings.com said it, then so be it. 

I said it.

And I said it more than once. 

“Women should not have children after 35!”

Some will send rude e-mails proclaiming the freedom of the womb
but I still stand by what I said.

You may disagree with me, that’s your right. 
I still stand firm on the issue.

With most things I keep an open mind but not on this issue. 

If I find an exception to this rule, 
then I will be open to change but for now, 
it’s firmly closed because I have never seen an exception.

Women should not have children after 35!

35 children are enough!

This was a lesson in jumping to conclusions.

Learn to get the facts first.

 

Are you a mom ? August 16, 2008

YOU KNOW YOUR A MOM WHEN
1. You count the sprinkles on each kid’s cupcake to make sure they’re equal.
2. You have time to shave only one leg at a time.

3. You hide in the bathroom to be alone.

4. Your kid throws-up and you catch it.

5. Someone else’s kid throws up at a party. You keep eating.

7. As you cling to the high moral ground on toy weapons; your child chews his toast into the shape of a gun.

8. You hope ketchup is a vegetable, since it’s the only one your child eats.

9. You find yourself cutting your husband’s sandwiches into cute shapes.

10. You hear your mother’s voice coming out of your mouth when you say, “NOT in your good clothes!”

11. You stop criticizing the way your mother raised you.

12. You donate to charities in the hope that your child won’t get that disease.

13. You hire a sitter because you haven’t been out with your husband in ages, then spend half the night checking on the kids.

14. You use your own saliva to clean your child’s face.

15. You say at least once a day, “I’m not cut out for this job”, but you know you wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

 

Another day another fudge .. August 15, 2008

I’m already dreading that the holidays are coming to an end. Barely 3 weeks more to go ! These days the boys and I sleep only past 4 in the morning,  well actually I sleep only around 6 !!!!!   almost around the time, DH sets his wake up call. I find the best thing about being me and now, is that I can get up when I want to ! The boys are up by noon or later and straight down Playing PS2, they make it a point to shut my door close so that I dont hear their quarrels !  Discipline and schedules are siting on the back burner for now .. let them just be carefree children, wasting their time infront of the TV or just doodling around .. there is enough stress in their lives once school reopens .. I dont want to push them into any study frames or homework frames right now ..    But just the thought of School. homework, classes, pick and drops, school runs  and ofcourse my work !! Thats goina be so tiring, thinking of it is already stressing me out !!

We live in such a stressful age and time ! We are so bound by the clock, we have just forgotten how to live without schedules and routines .. mornings are stressful, afternoons, we are struggling between meals,study time, and what not  and after dinner your almost ready to collapse !   I remember seeing this movie about Tom Hanks, who was a representative of Fedex , who’s plane crashes into the ocean somewhere and he is stuck on an island for a couple of years without any one, not even animals .. and he has to survive !  Brilliant Movie and as always excellent performance by Tom Hanks. That movie was a real eye opener, It reminded me too, how we slot our day into so many quarters that any change of time or schedule upsets the who cycle .. there are just so many things to be done and just so few hours in a day .. atleast for a mother the day is very short. We have to slow down.. we have to learn to enjoy the simple small things. We have so much to be thankful for and yet we are so absorbed in the mundane issues of daily existence ! We take almost everything for granted .. and whin about all the delays in life … Why .? ….. …. …..  why not make just a small change at a time and teach that to our children too .. THEY ARE naturally following everything we do, including,  taking after our attitudes too. We have to slow down and relax. Look around us and each day be great ful for what we have and what we can achieve.    A good thought should never be left in the back seat, greet it, introduce it to others. Much cheer comes from it.  

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I did a food festival today… We make pooris, Kheer, Potato curry, lentils and rice and yes, Lassi to wash it all down ! The boys got a special treat today, I baked chocolate fudge .. .. Bilal was in wonderland and Sawaab was drooling all the way with the sauce .. These small treats gives such a satisfaction, I baked after ages, infact eversince we moved here, the oven has just been used as storage ! 

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The sign below is so true and close to me .. all my three boys are closely placed .. age wise so that I remember for years till just a few months back, I could never lock the bathroom door, for mainly the fear that some accident could happen to the boys and now when finally I have started locking the door, I always get to see the tiny fingers crawling underneath the door or somehow it is always exactly at that moment that my middle son ’HAS’ to tell me about something that is “higly important”, my older son has to slip his “mona lisa under the door and ofcourse the youngest could go on complaining about the others right upto the time I came out !! whats weird is that somehow all of them seem to just forget all the pressing matters of “high importance” as soon as I am out.  This post below absolutely fits my profile. I just had to have it in my blog !

 

    

The bathroom door is closed ! August 15, 2008

Attention Children:
The Bathroom Door is Closed.

Please do not stand here and talk, whine, or ask questions.

Wait until I get out.

Yes, it is locked. I want it that way.

 It is not broken, I am not trapped.

 I know I have left it unlocked, and even open at times, since you were born, because I was afraid some horrible tragedy might occur while I was in there, but it’s been 10 years and I want some PRIVACY.

 Do not ask me how long I will be.

 I will come out when I am done.

Do not bring the phone to the bathroom door.

 Do not go running back to the phone yelling She’s in the BATHROOM!

 Do not begin to fight as soon as I go in.

 Do not stick your little fingers under the door and wiggle them. This was funny when you were two.

 Do not slide pennies, Legos, or notes under the door. Even when you were two this got a little tiresome.

If you have followed me down the hall talking, and are still talking as you face this closed door, please turn around, walk away, and wait for me in another room. I will be glad to listen to you when I am done.
And yes, I still love you.

Mom

A mother knows . .. … August 13, 2008

A MOTHER KNOWS

John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn’t help noticing how beautiful John’s roommate Julie was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between John and his roommate, and this only made her more curious.
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and the roommate than met the eye.

Reading his mom’s thoughts, John volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Julie and I are just roommates.”

About a week later, Julie came to John and said, “Ever since your mother came to dinner, I can’t find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don’t suppose she took it, do you?”

John said, “Well, I doubt it, but I’ll write her a letter, just to be sure.”

So he sat down and wrote:

“Dear Mother,
I’m not saying you ‘did’ take a gravy ladle from my house, and I’m not saying you ‘did not’ take a gravy ladle from my house, but the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.

Love,
John.”
 

Several days later, John received a letter from his mother which read:
“Dear Son,
I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with Julie, and I’m not saying that you ‘do not’ sleep with Julie, but the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now.

Love,
Mom.”

HOT SPICY ” P E P P E R “ August 13, 2008

Pepper when he was barely 5 weeks

My bundle of Mischief .. Pepper .. hence the name.

Poem for Parents . August 13, 2008

Thank You Sincerely

Thanks for the start to the lives that we’ve had.
Thanks for the nights that you went without rest.
So many memories, most happy, some sad;
If you weren’t perfect, you still passed the test,
Holding our hands, holding back all the fears.
Thank you sincerely for all of those years.

So many hours that you worked to provide
Multiplied by all the days that we grew,
When we behaved and the times we defied,
Never a doubt we could still count on you,
Making our laughter and drying our tears.
Thank you sincerely for all of those years.

Thanks for the rules that we wished were not there.
Thanks for the wisdom we sometimes denied.
All the attention and all of the care,
All the forgiveness and all of the pride,
Pointing out faults but then calling out cheers.
Thank you sincerely for all of those years.

For the examples you set every day,
Teaching with actions, those lessons hold tight.
We hardly knew just how much you could say
Simply by doing what you knew was right.
Now that we’re older, the logic appears.
Thank you sincerely for all of those years.

Thank you for love not required to be earned,
Not ever fading as time moves along.
You have to know that the love is returned,
Not always showing, but always so strong.
And you still care as your golden time nears.
Thank you sincerely for all of the years.

Truths about parenting .. .. August 12, 2008

TRUTHS ABOUT PARENTING

- A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.

- A child will not spill on a dirty floor.

- A young child is a noise with dirt on it.

- A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires.

- An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

- Avenge yourself; live long enough to be a problem to your children.

- Be nice to your kids, for it is they who will choose your nursing
home.

- Celibacy is not hereditary.

- Familiarity breeds children.

- For adult education, nothing beats children.

- God invented mothers because he couldn’t be everywhere at once.

- God invented guilt so mothers could be everywhere at once.

- Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your
brain.

- Having children will turn you into your parents.

- If a child looks like his father, that’s heredity; if he looks like a neighbor, that’s environment.

- If you have trouble getting your children’s attention, just sit
down and look comfortable.

- Ill-bred children always display their pest manners.

- Insanity is inherited; you get it from your kids.

- It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate
his father.

- It rarely occurs to teenagers that the day will come when they’ll
know as little as their parents.

- Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

- Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

- One child is often not enough, but two children can be far too
many.

- You can learn many things from children… like how much patience you have.

- Summer vacation is a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

- The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob
also turns to the left.

- There are three ways to get things done:
1) do it yourself
2) hire someone to do it
3) forbid your kids to do it

- There would be fewer problems with children if they had to chop wood to keep the television set going.

- Those who say they “sleep like a baby” haven’t got one.

- The best thing to spend on your children is time.