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    • Family ritual #1: Look a Cow

      • Look a Cow
        Whenever we get in the car, the game is on. No one has to say anything. The first person to see a cow and say Danny Devito's line from Throw Momma From the Train, WINS!

        Josh beat me at this on the island of Oahu driving out by Laie. He rubs it in with glee.


        Say, "Ahh."
        Whenever someone chokes or gags (usually the baby) they have to let everyone know that they're OK by demonstrating that their windpipe is clear. Josh started this with our oldest and it never went away.


        Love you miss you
        When our oldest was a baby, she would say goodbye like this: "Bye, Mommy! Love you miss you." It stuck. Our extended family and some friends know and use "LYMY" as a closing in their emails and letters.


      • answered by trishhaley on 07/29/2009
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    • Yelling got me into trouble

      • rebel yell (billy "snarl" idol)

        Only I wasn't yelling on purpose. I was just talking loud enough for me to hear myself. Kind of like when you try to talk to someone with your headphones on. They shush you. My mom shushed me a lot. Sometimes with a slap. Even if my brother was the first to start a fight or to throw a punch, I would get busted because I was the loudest. Just doesn't seem fair, does it? It's OK, I got my brother back when I spilled the bubbles I promised my mom I wouldn't spill if she would just please buy it for me. I spilled the bubbles right in front of the front door to our house and panicked. I pulled out all the jackets from the coat closet to cover it up. I figured out that it would still be found out when inspiration struck. I told my mom that my brother did it and he got a spanking. I was five years old. I didn't confess my lie to my mom until the day I graduated high school and we three were out for a celebratory dinner. Guess what I got? A slap.

      • answered by trishhaley on 06/10/2009
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    • My hidden talent involves twisting tongues.

      • tongue tied and twisted just an earth bound misfit

        I can twist my tongue upside down. I can also make a taco shape with my tongue. I've passed this gene to my daughter. She can do these tongue twisters and some other weird thing that I can't do.

        But my true gift is listening. Funny coming from me who wears hearing aids and makes her husband repeat himself five times before she'll put the dang things in. I can listen to a friend or friend-in-the-making for a long time. I would much rather hear about you than talk about myself. It's a hidden talent because you don't know it until we're friends.

      • answered by trishhaley on 06/10/2009
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    • A good friend needs to have Honesty, Confidence, & Humility -- for starters.

      • Honesty
        I don't mean that a person has to tell me all of the things they have done wrong in their lives or even spout their resume to be my friend. Honesty to me is being yourself. When I am with someone who is comfortable enough to let it all hang out without putting up the carefully crafted scaffold side of themselves... I think, "I have found a new friend." I then reserve all judgment and am free to learn all I can about him or her. It's great when I find more to like.


        Confidence
        Confidence is not the same as arrogance. Confidence is having talents, spectacular or not, and sharing them without apology. Having different talents than I have makes getting to know a friend even more fun.


        Humility
        Humility in a friend is the ability to let me serve you. It doesn't have to be the dirtiest job like cleaning a toilet bowl. It could be that when there is a crisis... large or small... you call me. It's nice to be needed.






      • answered by trishhaley on 06/10/2009
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    • 'Squishy.' sounds so sweet

      • Squishy.
        It is possibly the highest form of praise in our family if someone says, "You're squishy."


      • answered by trishhaley on 06/10/2009
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