You thought I forgot didn’t you? Left you hangin’.
Well, I didn’t. I was just a little occupied. Here are this week’s seven quick takes.
1
My life is now a string of blogable moments. There are times where my husband and I will experience something and then turn to one another and say, ‘that should go on the blog.’ Or Natalie/Ainsley will say something and Henry will say, ‘you’re putting that on the blog, right?’
2
Speaking of blogable moments… Henry and I were in the elevator on Thursday night after grabbing a bite to eat. We entered the elevator with another mom who greeted us and asked how we were. ‘Fine.’ we said. ‘How’s the little one?’ she asked. ‘Doing pretty well. He had surgery today and did well.’ Henry answered.
The lady sighed and said, ‘Well, you’re just getting here, but today makes two weeks for us, yes it does. You just wait.’ She swaggered off the elevator on the same floor as us. Henry and I looked at each other. He winked over her head and I zipped my lip. Who was I to tell her that this was actually day 30 for us and are on our fourth admission. I decided this wasn’t the time to one-up someone.
3
Henry is doing a funky diet that includes supplemental food. It comes in little packets of powdered food that you add water to. The first day he came home from work and I asked him about his meals. He told me the chili smelled like cat food and looked like vomit. By the end of the first week he turned to me in the car and said, ‘You know, for powdered food, this diet isn’t that bad. I’m thinking of ordering the oatmeal even when I’m done.’ It’s amazing to me how quickly our palettes get used bad food.
4
My sister, Christine, is training for a race similar to a triathlon sprint that includes trail running. She and some friends were training on a local mountain one day and caught up in the moment Christine said “Hey guys, this must be what it felt like to be an Indian.” As she was finishing the statement she looked over to see a man fishing and laughing at her comment. She waited 20 seconds before saying, “Sooooo, that Indian comment wasn’t timed very well, was it?”
5
Our cat Taurus has been mooching off us for the last 11 years. She sleeps a lot. Every once and awhile Henry will turn to her and say, ‘Taurus, when are you going to start pulling your weight?’
The other day as Henry and I were relaxing in the family room, I noticed Taurus batting a toy around the room. Then I noticed her eating the toy. Then I noticed the toy was really a mouse. After getting over my shock and disgust of a mouse being in my house, I clapped my hands and said, ‘Taurus, you really do work!’
6
My sister came in to watch the girls during Ryan’s surgery. They were out walking one day and Natalie kept looking around saying, ‘There’s a creep around here. Where is it? I know there’s a creep around here.’
My sister was a little concerned that we live near a creep so she asked. ‘You mean a creek?’
Natalie said, ‘No, a creep. You know, it has water in it, but it’s dirty so we can’t drink it.’
7
Have you ever messed up a word, such as creep, or heard someone else mess up a word and then incorporate it into your every day vernacular? My word is switty. My friend and I are avid scrabble players and we are always making up words to put down and then using them in a sentence to justify them. Switty was our first made up word early on in our friendship. It’s a perfectly usable word and we still use it together when we’re out. You know, I’m gonna take a shower…I’m so hot and switty.
This week’s question: What’s your made-up word?
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (22)
We have a lot of acronyms in our family. Such as BOB. BOB stands for Big Ole Breakfast. BOBs usually aren’t complete without pancakes (sometimes waffles), eggs, sausage, biscuits and sausage gravy. Mmmm.
Can’t think of any made up words that we use as a family off the top of my head but I have been meaning to blog about the fact that Delancey(our 4 year old) can’t seem to say the word ‘to’ without adding ‘da’ on the end of it. It’s quite comical if you start listening to how often she says it! For example in a sentence it would be like, “I need to-da go to the bathroom.” Hilarious, no?! Have a great day, Leighann! 🙂
Hey! Tell Amy I said hello.
We don’t have any made up words that we use regularly. My 6 1/2 yr old daughter always asks for a fly swapper to kill flies with. It always puts a funny mental picture in my mind.
LOve you all. Praising the Lord for the good reports. Still praying for the little pudge!
#2 – You are a better woman than I.
#6 – LMBO! I love it!
Haha great 7 quick takes! I can’t think of any at the moment of an exact make up word but I recall when I was a kid I used to spend a lot of my time at my grandparent’s house (they are hearing) I’m hard of hearing so it’s hard to hear words and say them correctly. Anyway, one day I was asking my grandma about “the big books that have a lot of information in it…is that an “en-co-pee-da?” My cousins and my gram laughed and said “no that’s an “Encyclopedia” so I kept rehearsing over and over “en-psych-o-peeda” but now I know and can say it right: encyclopedia 🙂
Hey Leighann! We say somethings that aren’t quite real words…like pritnear (ie: We were pritnear late for church, again 🙂
you cuz kelly
my son used to call vitamins monnies. he’s now almost 20. we still call em that.
and i’ve taken to defining the random word verification of the day. it amuses me, not sure about anyone else.
like below right now is “panite”
a material used to coat the inside of the jellyroll pan to keep the jelly from sticking.
i mean, everyone uses jelly in the jellyroll pan, right?
LOL those were all funny.
my made up word is ‘MITCHigan” for michigan. a friend of ours from Tonga could never pronouce Michigan right and always said MITCH a gan..so dh and I always say MITCHagan too for years now.
we have a creek around here too, thankfully no creeps though.
and my life is nothing but bad food but i have gotten used to it..lol
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I’m really enjoying your wonderful blog!! I’m a “follower” for sure! Praying with you for your beautiful son!
I’m really enjoying your wonderful blog!! I’m a “follower” for sure! Praying with you for your beautiful son!
(I’m having trouble posting this. Sorry if it’s a duplicate!)
Leighann, Our word is uhglee. Uhglee?
We have 2 made up words we use in our family:
wowo = waffles (our oldest couldn’t say waffle and wowo kind of stuck….now our youngest also enjoys wowos for breakfast:))
huggle= snuggle+hug…its a favorite in our house:) Hope the little guy is doing well:)
Okay, the creep thing still has me laughing (almost woke up the kids too).
Our word is pollypolish. When Mad was little, she used to call fingernail polish, pollypolish. Not sure why, but it has always stuck.
Oh, and when my sister was younger, she always complained that we wouldn’t let her play Scrabble with us. One day we let her and she just started jumping up and down with joy that she actually had a word. She put down, N-H-E. My brother and I looked at each other like “what the heck does that spell”. She said so proudly “knee, n-h-e, knee”! Obviously, we still laugh about it till this day =)
Mara
Very gracious of you not to comment back to that lady! Love your made up word. 🙂 I can’t think of any right now.
Praying for your baby Ryan.
I loves these…and love that your life are blogable moments… we say that around here too. I also make up words all the time…and Zach is amazed and is keeping a log. He thinks Eli and Jasper are going to have a horrible because of me. Haha.
Gurst- Burst and bust, meaning explosion of some kind.
this one always makes Zach laugh, mostly because I say my words seriously and actually think they are real words. I do though and if they aren’t they should be!!!
Snarly!
Occasionally when I get tried or my blood chemistry gets out of whack, I’ll get snarly with someone. It’s not a good thing – if I’m snarly it’s time to go put on some O2 and catch a nap.
I hope things continue to go well. We’re pulling for Ryan!
Steve
Adult CHD Survivor
Adventures of a Funky Heart! blog
http://tricuspid.wordpress.com
I think my favoriet is hanitizer (hand sanitizer), Christian made this one up:) Glad to hear Ryan is still doing well. We continue to pray. Amanda Luhn
Glad to hear Ryan is doing well. You all are in our thoughts and prayers always.
Our word is ‘med-sin’ (medicine). When Morgan was 2, everything needed ‘medsin’. “Mommy I have a head-ick (headache) I need medsin! I need medsin!” Even today, when Ryan Madson is pitching, I will tease Morgan by saying “O look! Med-sin is pitching for the Phillies!” He just rolls his eyes and sighs and says, “Mommy, it’s MADson.” Will I never get it right? haha
i always add s’s to ends of everything… for example underwears,red robins…ect. i just always have.
Christine- we do that too- somewheres, nowheres, etc…
kelly (cousin)
I’m sure you’re aware of MoveOn.org. Well, my husband used to say, “Move on . . . dot org.” One day he said, “Move on”, and our then 3 or 4 year old said, “duggord.” So a duggord is someone who can’t (or won’t) move on.