knots

found at Kevin's blog

Dear God,
please untie the knots
that are in my mind,
my heart and my life.

Remove the have nots,
the can nots and the do nots
that I have in my mind.
Erase the will nots,
may nots, and
might nots that find
a home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,
would nots and
should nots that obstruct my life.

And most of all, dear God,
I ask that you remove from my mind
my heart and my life all of the am nots
that I have allowed to hold me back,
especially the thought
that I am not good enough to be your child.

Amen.

For Mr. Jim

I don't know, but when I watched this video I thought Mr. Jim would like it. Have fun, everybody:

Are you sad?

take a look at this baby and you won't stay sad...!

Ken Lee. Language Class.

It seems I don't have to say much these days. Well, I could say a lot, but it is nothing "wise", "fun" or "interesting" at all so I just share another movie Chris showed us today in "Language Class" at Debra's House (she has made a wonderful breakfast and afterwards we listened to a German-lesson CD). When it came to pronunciation and how we misunderstand things sometimes, Chris mentioned "Ken Lee". So listen to it and enjoy (I laughed my head off!):

tulibu dibu douchoo!!!

sometimes help is needed

mouse is boring. mouse pointer is cool

Daylight Saving Time in Germany this weekend

She: Don’t forget to put the clock forward…
He: I know - but whereto… ?

only for those who know some german...

Some people don't understand the english lyrics and "translate" it into german. My favorite is "viele Zähne" (=many teeth"):

(ww) what is “wrong”?

what is not supposed to be found here?

cute kids in bus

Today when I was sitting in the bus on my way to work a young mommy came in with two sweet little boys. One of them, the older one, maybe 4 years old, sat down right across from my seat (we sat face to face). The younger one didn't want to sit down and just mumbled something like "nooo, I don't wanna" when his mother asked him again to sit down. Without further ado she grabbed him and placed him next to his brother. Immediately he fold down his lower lip, screwed up his eyes and started to raise his voice but his mother kind of yelled at him:"Elias, if you start screaming now, we will get off the bus NOW and walk the whole way down to Kindergarden!" He gasped for breath for two or three seconds and during this time he glanced at me.
I looked at him with my "hey-lil-boy-you-are-actually-not-very-nice" face, what irritated him and he frowned. At that time I changed my facial expression into a very big grin (kids usually can't resist) what irritated him even more.
At this moment I looked to his brother who really couldn't resist and tried hard to refrain from laughing. When I smiled at him, he gave up and smiled back.
Elias, who was observing his older brother and me smiling, suddenly burst out laughing "HAHAHAHAH", very loud (and I mean VERY loud!) so that I couldn't help but laughing, too! (All the people in the bus probably thought I was one sandwich short of a picnic...)

After that happy ending of a not-screaming-toddler-in-the-bus, that little guy didn't stop grinning at me! He showed all his teeth - and that was SO funny I decided to grab my cellphone (comes with a camera) and take a picture.

You should have seen Elias' eyes... They turned big and round and he asked me totally amazed: "did you take my picture??????"
I said: "Yes, I did!"
"Ooohh! Can I see it?"
"Of course!"

The older one: "Take one of me, too!!!" what I did. "Let me see. Oh that's me and him. Can I have one that shows only me?" And the friendly, totally unknown auntie [me] went on taking pictures of totally unknown kids...
Finally I got a really good shot of both, just before we all had to get off the bus.

That experience was so delighting I couldn't stop smiling almost the whole day...

(ww) Hot Dog is out

go for grilled cat!

check your child's homework

Canadian first-graders were asked to draw a picture about what they wanted to be when they were grown up.
One of the girls drew this and really shocked her teacher:
The following day the girl brought a note written by her mother that said:
"Dear Miss Davis,
I just want to clarify that my daughter's painting shows me, but not as a dancer in a striptease bar! I work in a hadware store and recently I told my daughter that I earned some extra money after we had a lot of snow storms. The drawing shows me selling snow shovels."

(I got this email today which really amused me...)

this one makes me laugh every time I see it!

Daisy - absolutely exhausted!

30 minutes ago I started to play with Daisy. I probably overdid a little - but she loved it so much and didn't want to stop! She really likes to run after little pieces... After 15 minutes she gasped so heavily for breath - like a little dog -, that I stopped to give her some time to relax. When I finally had my camera prepared, she was actually doing better

today's smile

could be my cat!

that cat looks exactly like my cat!

honoring our moms...

in the u.s. school is about to start again after vacation and in this connection i found this video... have fun watching!

math??? no problem!!!

typing

I don't know if that is good or bad for a german girl (who never learned typing at school or something) but
42 words
Touch Typing

Ultrablock Game