ugly tree sweaters, funeral processions, thankyous, and overused phrases

I haven't written for a couple days so here are a few things I have been thinking about/Noah has been saying:

There are a couple main street drags in Cleveland that are following this weird trend. They are putting sweaters on the street-lining trees, parking meters, and light posts. I think it's ugly, tacky, and stupid. I suppose they are probably supporting some starving local artist by doing this.


(note: after searching for this picture I found some actually cool pictures of tree sweaters, but I still stand by my previous statement that it looks dumb on the objects that I have driven by in real life)

Funeral processions, you know where 50 bajillion cars all follow each other to the grave site, bug me. I can't imagine driving in a long long long line of cars is really a comforting tradition. Maybe it is. And I'm sure meeting at the grave site can also be a comfort for people. There have been a couple big funerals in the last few months in our congregation. And after talking to the people who helped out, it takes up an entire day just to set up the funeral and then wait for the people to drive out to the grave site (50 bajillion cars in a row) and then drive back again and then to finally eat lunch at 5pm for a funeral that started at 9am. These people who put on the lunch are volunteers, first of all. second, they usually have at least a couple kids. third, their husbands are usually in school or are working and don't have time to help out. So, whenever I am sitting at a light after light after light waiting for all the cars in the procession to pass, I always think about those people. And plan my own funeral. I hope someday I can save up enough money so that at my funeral, they can just order pizza. Lots of really darn good pizza. And instead of being buried, I am going to be turned into fertilizer and my funeral will consist of planting a tree on family land. Ok, I'm weird. I know.

Noah has been saying his own prayers at mealtimes lately. I love when he says "thank you for thankyous." so insightful!


There are a couple phrases that I think are pretty silly:

"I'm not gonna lie but..." I usually think, well, why would you lie about that?

"Just saying" I see this one a lot on facebook. people will write something super opinionated and even offensive to some people and then say "just sayin" as if that excuses what they just wrote. just sayin'.

Today at the library Noah wanted to read a book to the fishies in the fish tank:
" come here! fishies! read a book! com here!"

Ok, i'm done for today