Tongue Five

This is my first proper blog about 2025, seeing as the last one that I wrote on 3rd Jan was all about December. I’m a bit behind on everything, normally at the end of the year I do a kids quote of the year, but I think this one will be my last. I haven’t had such great ones this year and they’re pretty much all from Eric. There must be an age when kids peak in funniness, I think about 3-6, because I remember the years where Percy had loads more than Eric and then Eric was equal and then he took over.

My favourites from previous years include:

How do you milk a ghost? - Percy 

What would happen if lightning struck a cheese triangle? - Eric

Daddy your face looks like a world war. - Percy

Poo and wee are married. - Percy

Can ice creams put out fire? -Percy

What is your nose stuck on with? - Eric

We have two babies one made out of plastic and one made out of real. - Percy

2024 quotes.

1) "look at my new crab gloves" -they're called mittens Eric.

2) “That was more fun than I wanted it to be” - Eric I wish I’d written down what that was about.

3) “Did dogs get named after doggy paddle or the other way round?” -Eric

Hey what’s that unnamed animal swimming doggy paddle? Shall we just call that a dog?

4)  Percy: we just high fived each other on the tongue, 

Eric: ha ha yeah tongue five

5) “I had a dream where a dog was wearing roller skates and sunglasses but the roller skates were cats.” -Eric

One day I want to draw some of these as cartoons and get them printed on a mug. Maybe made into a calendar or something.

It was my birthday last Monday and I celebrated with a trip to Spain for the day while the boys were in school. It’s a bit over an hour to Girona and that’s a fun city. I wanted to pick a birthday gift for myself from Dan, he finds it hard to choose stuff I’ll like and I like choosing for myself. I think everyone would be happier if instead of doing a family secret Santa, we all bought something for ourselves and then just showed the others. 

Pigs on the road to Spain

For my birthday I bought a space T-shirt. It’s black with white specks and a tiny astronaut and I got some new make-up. I am 39 and I am still wearing pretty much the same kind of make up I did at 18. For the first ever time I got concealer and blusher, I need as much help as I can get covering up my 39 year old face now.

My parents got me a new Eastpak backpack. It comes with a 30 year guarantee, which means I won’t need a new one until I’m 69. I told my mum if she’s still alive at 94 can she please put a new backpack on my birthday list for then. It will be interesting to see if the bag outlives my mum, it could even outlive me. And if the zip breaks on my bag after 29 years can I get a whole new bag? Has anyone actually ever tested this guarantee?

On the evening of my birthday I had 3 girls round for a meal and a few games. We played a cool one called 10 to 1 where you are given a card between 1 and 10 and you have to answer a question like 

“You are giving a lecture on an important subject, what is the title?” If you have card 1 it has to be a very boring title like, the study of ancient pollen (that’s a joke for 1 friend) or how to solve climate change if you had a high number. And then someone has to guess the correct order based on the answers.

My friend told me she played with her family at Christmas and deliberately gave her mum a 10 card when the question was to “do a record breaking high jump” and her mum couldn’t jump at all and apparently it was hilarious.

It was a really fun day and we just had a great weekend skiing but in the middle was 4 days of stress and bad news about our housing situation, which I will write more about in another blog.

Thanks for reading.