Audience photo by Vlah Dumitru on Unsplash.
At the end of a school play (Pre-covid, obviously), when the audience was applauding, Joe kept saying something I couldn’t hear. Finally, when the crowd’s enthusiasm died down, he said, “They weren’t listening to me. They kept clapping.”
The nerve of some people.
He just watched me scrubbing a toilet, cleaning the shower, etc. and said, “Mom, why are you being so funny?”
What does it say about me that he finds this behavior of mine amusing?
Have you done anything “funny” lately?
Motherhood and Martial Arts 
Ha! I love his take on things…)
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So long as I’m keeping him entertained, I guess.
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These days? No, not a thing. I hope one of your readers has!
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You might be selling yourself short, Jacqui. Apparently even just some light housework is hilarious!
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Well, I get that he’d be annoyed that people wouldn’t stop clapping – after all he is the most important person in the world (just ask him). It’s interesting that your cleaning seems to amuse him. Perhaps it’s the way you scrub.
I haven’t done anything funny in the last two weeks – you’re not allowed to be funny when moving, some weird law they have in Nevada …
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Ugh, Nevada. No sense of humor. No fun to be had anywhere in that state. 😉
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LOL! I’m sure if you send Joe here he would find me hilarious (because household chores are like full-moon occasions–that’s about how often I feel inclined to do them 🙂 ) As for funny (outside of household chores), probably weeding is in that category (now that we have our humor defined 😀 😀 ) Oh, and reading snarky urban fiction. Laugh out loud snark is fun! I’m on a steady diet right now of Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, and Ilona Andrews — I tell myself it’s for the snark 🙂
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For the snark, riiiiight. I mean, if you need an excuse to read for fun. I find research is usually all I need for an excuse. 🙂
It’s a shame I don’t clean more often so that there would be more laughter and hilarity around here.
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I just got up, it’s 6:30 AM, and you’re asking me to remember something I’ve done in the past two weeks? Now that’s funny. Hi Betsy!
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Haha. That made me chuckle, Frank. Thank you. And I wish you a good (belated) morning, sir!
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I wonder how his little mind works, but I don’t need to know to enjoy his commentary. Nothing much funny here to add.
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He is funny. (And sometimes other words that aren’t as nice.) But he keeps me on my toes!
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😂 I am SURE that cleaning the toilet appears to be quite amusing. I mean WHY would anyone put themselves anywhere near the innards of a toilet on purpose?
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You make a lot of sense, CM.
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I do my best 😉
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I doubt it’s hard for you. 🙂
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You may be surprised 😉
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Funny?… well, I did read this post.
Oh, and I tripped while carrying a full gallon of paint. It went flying and sprayed everything for ten feet. That was funny in a horrible way.
Joe is so cute. He’ll give you reasons to post for years. 🙂
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Oh no! The paint! Were you able to clean it up? Please tell me this wasn’t on carpet!
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No carpet, but huge splatters on the stairs, walls, floor, and all over my face and glasses. I almost paused to get my husband to take a picture for the blog, but I was trying to soak everything in wet paper towels before the paint started to stick. I had to get paint to touch up the wall with the original color…. and paint to replace what I dumped all over the house! Lol. It’s funny now. When it happened… not so much.
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Aw man. I’m retroactively feeling a great deal for you. I’m glad you can laugh now and that the situation was rectifiable!
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Not that a new carpet wouldn’t have been nice! Hmm. I’ll have to keep that strategy in the back pocket.
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Haha! Shame on you! {But I won’t tell. 😉 }
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What prompted that remark? Are you cracking jokes while scrubbing toilets??
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I suspect he wanted me to play with him. I was ignoring him and doing strange things (cleaning) instead. I guess he found that funny? Funny is his limited vocabulary word for strange? Boys befuddle me.
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I’m befuddled by females to this day!
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Yeah, I could tell that from reading your blog.
Kidding!
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Haha!
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“Cracking jokes while scrubbing toilets.” I feel there’s already a joke in there.
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Potty humor…
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Teehee. It “cracks” me up.
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The nerve of some people, to continue clapping when important things needed to be said. Too cute!
I’m not sure that cleaning is funny, but my boys went through a time where anything bathroom related, cleaning of toilets included, was considered hilarious. Now that I think about it, I don’t think that time has actually ended around here. Bathroom humor for life!
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Hey, if bathroom humor gets them to clean said bathroom, I’d be all for it too! 🙂
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Joe is the Cutest!!!!
Your 2 anecdotes brought back a memory from waaaaaaay back (probably not to the point, so bear with me): we were sitting in the pews at mass (girls were about 4 and 6) after a long hiatus (we couldn’t cope with sitting in the main church when they went through the fidgety phase so we tried Cry Rooms, walking them outside the sanctuary, etc etc.). When the bell tinkled during the celebration of the Eucharist, the older one asked in her loud Stage Whisper: “Mommy, is that the Ice Cream Man”?
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Haha! That’s very cute! Uuum, not QUITE, but given that children are often told that in heaven they can eat as much ice cream as they want, it sort of fits! Jesus is the great ice cream man! 🙂
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Amen.
I just wish the folks in the pews ahead and behind us had your sense of humour – I remember feeling very disapproved of at the time.
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Ach. Sigh. Whatever. No doubt Jesus got a chuckle, and He’s all that matters.
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Like you, I don’t THINK I’m doing something/anything funny, but my family members keep laughing at me (with me?) Like when I couldn’t find my facemask anywhere and began going crazy looking for it, and one of the ‘kids’ (um, 30-something) pointed to my ear, in which the face mask was hanging down where I’d put it so I could breathe. ;-0
I think you must have a really cute way of scrubbing….
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Haha! Hanging off your ear. At least you’ve gotten so used to it that it wasn’t bugging you. That’s good, anyway. 🙂 Sort of like when you can’t find your glasses and they’re on your head. Or a friend of mine who was freaking out because she couldn’t find her kid who was already in her arms. Lol! Thanks for sharing, Roughwighting. And, no, I highly doubt my method of toilet scrubbing is anything special. It was probably just something he’d never seen me doing before!
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Haha – my family tells me I’m always doing something funny – I don’t know if I am, but I guess it amuses them!
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Job security–keep them entertained. 😉
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LOL! That is just too cute.
Can’t say I’ve done anything funny lately—-unless you count chasing my cat around and shrieking while trying to stop her from eating a bug 🙂
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Haha! That does sound funny. Thanks, Mae. 🙂
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The funniest thing I’ve done is tell my son to pick up his shoes for the umpteenth time. It’s not really that funny:) Cheers!
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Maybe it’s funny to him. 😉 Thanks, CK.
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No but enjoy reading about your funny times!
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Thanks, Diane. 🙂
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I’m with you, Joe. Parents, they’re so inconsiderate 😀
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Haha! 🙂
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