Fun with Mother Goose

I gave this little quiz to my students today to see how well they remember nursery rhymes.  How many do you know? NO CHEATING!!

1.Who went up the hill?

2.Who lost her sheep?

3.Who could eat no lean?

4.Who ran away when the boys came out to play?

5.Who sat on a wall?

6.Who was under the haystack fast asleep?

7.Whose cupboard was bare?

8.Who had a wife and could not keep her?

9.Who called for his pipe, bowl, and fiddlers?

10.Who lived in a shoe?

11.Who was frightened of spiders?

12.Who jumped over the moon?

13.Who ran up the clock?

14.Who kissed the girls and made them cry?

15.Who was in the counting house counting his money?

16.What time was it when the mouse fell down in Hickory Dickory Dock?

17.Who stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plumb?

18.Who jumped over a candlestick?

19.How many men were in a tub?

20.What ran away with the spoon?

21.Who could eat no fat?

22.Who couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again?

23.Who was in the parlor eating bread and honey?

How did you do?

1.Jack and Jill

2.Little Bo Peep

3.Jack Sprat’s wife

4.Georgie Porgie

5.Humpty Dumpty

6.Little Boy Blue

7.Old Mother Hubbard

8.Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater

9.Old King Cole

10.An old Woman

11.Little Miss Muffet

12.The Cow

13.The mouse

14.Georgie Porgie

15.The king

16.1 o’clock

17.Little Jack Horner

18.Jack

19.Three

20.The dish

21.Jack Sprat

22.All of the king’s horses and all the king’s men

23.The Queen

I am just one big 4 year old

I can be pretty mature at times, but the majority of my life I am just a little kid at heart.
Proof:

1. Lizzy and I once played "don't touch the ground it is made of LAVA!" while cleaning our church in Logan.  Yes, we were both 21 years of age.  Yes, we got the guys that were with us to join.
2. I have been known to make forts out of furniture in my apartment and house.  I just made one with my brother the other day.
3. My insults usually include the words "meanie" and "poop stain"
4. I would rather watch a Disney princess movie when offered the chance to watch something "more mature" such as Inception.
5. I have to take a nap every day or I cry, literally.
6. I drink my milk with a straw.
7. My daddy is still the love of my life.
8. I finger paint, and make my friends do it with me.

Those are just a few of the reasons.  My list could go on forever.

One thing I have really notices lately is that I love like a child.

I love everyone, truly.  I am probably the only person in the world that wants to cry when the good guys shoot down the German Nazi.  The Nazi is a child of God too.  My heart aches for the pain of everyone I know and often for people I don't know.  

This is my gift to the world.  Love, not unconditional, but pretty close.  It is hard sometimes.  Sometimes I wish I just didn't care, but I do.  I love the world and chances are I love you. 

The Weekend

Friday:
My little sister Em and her bestie Meg came with me to teach on Friday.  It was the Mr. Lancer Assembly so I had a long break in which we went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast.  Yum Yum!  It was a lot of fun.  That night my friends and I went to La Ferrovia for dinner.  This was more than YUM!  If you love Italian you will love this place.  It is on 25th street in Ogden.  Go!  After we at our delicious food we walked over the the Solomon Center and watched people do iFly.  I am a chicken, and poor, and don't see myself trying this out for a LONG time.  One day I will do it.  I will be able to do all the cool flips and tricks too. Next, we went to the $3 movie theater and saw "Red Tails." I had never heard of it, but I loved it. A LOT! Here is the trailer.


After this I went to my aunt's and talked to her and my uncle and Heathie for a bit. We ended up watching "I Dream of Jeannie" and I crashed on her floor.

Saturday:
Woke up and discovered my cousin Jaimie was up here from Arizona. We went to my aunts for a St. Patrick's Day breakfast. We had breakfast burritos in green tortilla shells, a fruit rainbow, toast, green milk, green apple juice, and of course green magic dust. It turned our fruit green! (Take a box of lime jello and put it in a sugar shaker. Shake it onto your food and it will change the color of your food to green. It helps if the food is slightly wet.) After that I came home and did some work and then went to Brigham City with my Aunt Debbie and Momma. We got a free pizza and went over to Idle Isle Candy Shop and got an almond creme toffee. My Momma told me some history of Brigham City while we walked down Main Street. That is where she grew up. Such a pretty little town. We came back home and I went over to Madison's house for drinking games and a movie to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. We had a lot of fun. Drew concocted up a bunch of interesting, and of course virgin, drinks for our games. We laughed so hard it hurt. We played Mau. I have a love/hate relationship with this card game. When we got sick of the game, we watched "Puss in Boots." Hilarious, of course I only saw some of it because of course I fell asleep for the end. It is my curse. I can never finish a movie without falling asleep. One day.

Sunday:
So I woke up to my brother making us breakfast. We have church and then after church we are headed to the Grandparent's for Family Dinner. Our theme is Comfort Food. I am excited to see people! Also, Sunday's are the best!

Dear Men

This is a Dear Boys post gone Men, because quite frankly these ones are all to men who should be acting like men.

Dear Scruffy,
You are worth all the space you take up.  I love you, we all love you.  Your habits are becoming destructive to your body.  Put the bottle down.
Love Me

Dear New Guy,
I have bad commitment issues.  Yours are far worse.  Good luck!
Sincerely,
Losing Interest

Dear Runner,
Make up your mind.  No one hurts my friends like this.  Stop this confusion.
Love Me

Dear BFF,
I feel our friendship slipping away.  Don't let it happen.
Love forever,
I need you.

Dear Coach,
I admire you from a distance.  My students want to set us up.  This scares me a bit.
Sincerely,
That Student Teacher

Dear Mr. Gangly,
You treat her so well.  She deserves that.  Keep it up.
Love Sis

Dear Loser,
I saw you at the store last night.  My heart skipped a beat.  I remembered how much you hurt me.  That is one bad scar you made.
Still Healing

Here's to old friends that become new friends

Sometimes I forget how blessed I am.  I have had so many great friends in my life.  Sometimes friends just grow apart.  Not because they don't get a long anymore, but simply because life takes them to different places. The best thing I have discovered is that sometimes life brings you back to those friends.  Best friends from the past slowly become your best friends of the new future.  I thank Heavenly Father for my chance to be reunited with the best friends I have always loved. 

I am also so glad I get to have the chance to make so many new friends.  So new friends, lets make some memories to last us a lifetime!!!

Bigger or Better?

Ever played the game Bigger or Better?  It sure is fun.  Basically what you do is start out with some random small items and go around the neighborhood and ask if people will trade something bigger or better for your item.

Last night we had a birthday party for my cousin's 16th.  We played this game.  It was hilarious.  My group ended up with a super old toaster oven, a crock pot, a HUGE dish drain, a fake tree, and these beauties

They will be hanging on my wall soon.  Yes, those are tiki men. Thank you Momma Lippert for this great trade!

Some other items we had through the night:

A yoga ball, a read crate, a waste basket, a big dice valentines box (with a few valentines included), a printer, envelopes, toilet paper, and a number 10 can of chili.  

Zachary!

It is March everybody!  Woot Woot!  I love this month.

The whole teen world is celebrating Bieber's birthday today.  The birthday I am celebrating is much much better!  That is right, Mark Paul Gosselaar.  Only the man I have been in love with since like 2nd grade.  Who can resist this face? SERIOUSLY!!!

I even loved him when he looked like this:

Happy 38th Mark!

"Ms. Judkins! My Water Broke!"

Pregnancy unit in Child Development = electronic babies and pregnancy bellies.  This sure has been and is going to continue to be interesting.  Today in my first class I picked on two guys and one girl to try on the bellies.  They had a lot of fun walking around and of course the guys love touching the new bumps on their chest.  (Mature high school students)

So I am helping the last girl get her belly on.  It takes a bit to Velcro everything in place.  From  the front of the room I hear "Ms. Judkins! My water broke!"  Yup, one of the boys had water all down the front of his pants.  The cap to the water pouch inside the belly had come party off.  The poor boy literally looked like he wet himself.  A lot.  Let's just say he is getting some major extra credit.

So the rest of the day was going great today.  Adult Roles came.  We talked about divorce today.  Super touchy subject for my classes because 98% of them have dealt with divorce directly.  Crazy I know.  So remember the mock wedding we had a few weeks ago?  Well it was time for me to divorce the lovely couple.  I am in the middle of my lesson when the school police officer walks in.  "I am here to see (we will call this student Howard) Howard." I look over and Howard's face is white.  He looks so scared!  The officer says he has some paper for Howard.  And then the officer adds they are divorce papers.  This is when my class catches on.  I had planned for this to happen.  I just didn't plan on my student almost going into shock because he was SOOO scared.  Note to self, if I ever do this activity again I need to make sure the student I am doing it to does not have previous history with the school officer.

Being a teacher can be pretty entertaining.

The Dating Life of Anonymous: Episode 1

*So I have a friend, a close guy friend.  He has dating issues.  It is entertaining.  I have decided to do a weekly episode of his life.  Enjoy!

Episode 1

Anon (short for anonymous) has always had interesting luck with girls.  Ever since I met him he has always been... lets just say girl crazy!   In high school he was in love with a lot of different girls.  It was hard to keep up with.

Here is his statement:

"It's that time of the month.  I have cycles.  

For two weeks I hate girls and then for two 

weeks I can't get enough of them."

Lets start with a history of his dating life:

1. Anon's first girlfriend, lovingly referred to as "slut face" cheated on him while they were dating, with his coworker, and got her pregnant.
2. Pebbles is number two.  This relationship lasted for quite a while.  She was really good at kissing (according to Anon).  He went on a mission and what happens? What always happens!  She got married to a different guy.
3. One of my favorites of his relationships was Popcorn.  Anon met Popcorn through his older sister.  They also liked kissing.  A lot.  They had issues.  Most confusing relationship ever seen on planet earth.  Let's just say they were and weren't dating quite often.  It was super confusing.  We spent my birthday listening to Anon rant about this one.

This episode now begins with Cuddles.  Anon and Cuddles both have a hard time dealing with peer pressure.  They were told to cuddle the first time they hung out and what did they do? CUDDLED! Duh!  And then for the next two weeks they cuddled until 4 in the morning.  Anon says he lost a lot of sleep (wink wink).  Then they went on dates and more dates.

So Anon and Cuddles had a DTR and they aren't officially dating.  So what do you think this means to Anon? Fine! Makeout with EVERYONE!  Yep, that is what he did.

ok.

Maybe not quite everyone.

Maybe just one other girl.

But then he cuddled with an other girl.  (These two instances have happened in the last 36 hours)

Let's get back to Makeout Girl.  First of all I think you all need to know this little detail.  Anon had just gone for a run, therefore, he was dressed in his running spandex.  Very interesting.  So Makeout Girl tells him to come over.  It was midnight.  There is a reason you don't go over to someones apartment late.  Interesting things always happen late at night.  This next part is a direct quote from Anon.  "So she went like 95 and then like 3 more so I went 2 and then 110." And then he used the equation to get her on bottom.  The Tickle.  The Turn.  The Flip.  Much better.  (Guys!  He truly said this.  I have two other witnesses)

So then, next day, Anon is hanging out with yet another girl.  They decided to basically cuddle.  (basically cuddling means that he had his arm around her back and her head was on his shoulder.  Not quite cuddling but basically.)

Can you say COMMITMENT ISSUES??!!!!

Stay tuned for the next episode of The Dating Life Anonymous.

The Single Life: Speed Dating Edition

I think someone should do a formal study on singles wards.  I love people watching and going to singles activities can really be a great place to do this.  Dating can be an awkward thing and it becomes more awkward in a church setting, but it sure is exciting to watch!

If your dating life isn't awkward enough I suggest Speed Dating.  I wonder who invented this concept.  I mean, really.   If people keep doing it, it must be working for some people somewhere. 

A description of my night:

• The awkward moment when the guy keeps saying your name while he talks to you and you have already forgotten his name....
• Asking a guy if he is going to school or working and he answers "I am a gamer" (what does that term really mean? cause it screams "I am a life waster" to me)
• The embarrassing moment when the guy knows your name already and tells you about a memory they have of you and you don't remember them AT ALL!
• The embarrassing moment when a boy you were in love with in junior high sits down and doesn't even know who you are
• The guy who really connected with the girl right before you and continues to talk to her after he moves to the seat across from you...

A description of the things I observed:

• Girl interested, guy not but he is too nice to stop talking to her
• Young, flirty girls attract old, equally flirty men
• Stalking at its finest
• There are usually 2 girls for every guy at church events
•  I'm only 22 and I am already one of the "old" women
• Girls eat less ice cream in front of guys

Oh the fun adventures of the single life.  I have plenty to share.

Also, a little tip for the guys:
Never ever tell a girl how many girlfriends you have had.  It is not something that impresses us.