Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Love is the Movement




This is how I'm going to write love on my arm tomorrow. =)
-Mouse

Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Be the Miracle

Parting your soup is not a miracle, Bruce, it's a magic trick. A single mom who's working two jobs and still finds time to take her kid to soccer practice, that's a miracle. A teenager who says no to drugs and yes to an education, that's a miracle. People want me to do everything for them, and what they don't realize is - they have the power. You want to see a miracle, son? Be the miracle.
-From "Bruce Almighty"-

Monday, December 17, 2007

Who did Hitler kill?

Hey there, Cheese here. So, I've been thinking lately about the Holocaust. We just got done last week reading "The Hiding Place" by Corrie TenBoom. (You should read it if you never have) Thus, what got me thinking about the Holocaust. Mostly, at first, I thought about the survivors. But now, I'm thinking about all those people who died.

One of them might have found the cure for cancer. One of them might have been the next Nobel Peace Prize winner. One of them might have ended the AIDS epidemic. One thing is for sure, they each would have lived a very different life, perhaps having children, taking in orphans, abandoned animals. They would have married, or maybe found a great job and been happy single.

Who exactly did Hitler have murdered?

101 Things for Maggie and Jill to do together before Jill goes to college

So, we decided to come up with a list of things to do (101 to be exact) before I leave for college at the end of this summer. Here it is:

1. Put on a church service at a grocery store
2. Eat a roll of mentos and drink a 2 liter of diet coke
3. Come up with a nickname for Jill
4. Make an onion volcano
5. Use chalk to decorate the sidewalk at RP
6. Bake a cake and decorate it like Bob the Tomato
7. Give the cake to Amie to celebrate her randomly chosen birthday
8. Find awesome hats and wear them on a coffee date
9. Make happy cards and send them to unhappy friends
10. Dress up like tacky weirdos and walk around in public
11. Have a frog keychain making contest
12. Write a ridiculous poem and read it to Airbourne
13. Go to one of Maggie’s band concerts
14. Bring fine China to Starbucks and insist on using it
15. Talk with an accent for a day
16. Swing
17. Build a sandcastle at the beach
18. Spray paint the sandcastle
19. Go sledding
20. Have a hula hoop contest
21. Dance in the rain with a helmet
22. Go to Goodwill and choose outfits for each other
23. Make orange julius’
24. Go to a movie and eat popcorn and invite Amie
25. Call a radio station and request one of our favorite songs
26. Give out mini candy canes at Christmas
27. Find a big, name it, and keep it in a jar as our pet
28. E-mail random phrases and words to Steve
29. Collect milk caps, draw smile faces on them, and pass them out
30. Play chubby bunny only rename it German gerbils
31. Eat six saltines in a minute
32. Rally to end women’s suffrage
33. Rally to end child abuse
34. Make cookies and pass them out at a homeless shelter
35. Pull an all-nighter and bake muffins
36. Volunteer somewhere
37. Eat a quart of ice cream in one sitting while crying dramatically
38. Make friendship bracelets
39. Have an ice cube melting contest
40. Drink apple juice from baby bottles
41. Try to get something out of a crane
42. Ride the Meijer pony
43. Go boating
44. Go tubing
45. Eat yellow snow cones
46. Make fliers for something and hand them out at Crazy Bounce
47. Go a day without facebook
48. Slap a cow’s butt
49. Come up with a theory on the male species
50. Find the best flavor of gum, rate it on a scale of 1-19
51. Make a survey and get 100 people to take it
52. Read the same book at the same time
53. Make snow angels
54. Check out a bunch of books and return them an hour later
55. TP Juj’s office
56. Make Jim a present
57. Make a “we love you” sign for Juj’s door.
58. Play checkers
59. Play Twister
60. Make locker posters for each other
61. Write a children’s book that rhymes
62. Explain and try to prove the stork theory
63. Watch a little kid show
64. Paint our faces and run around making Indian warrior sounds
65. Be valentines, but not on Valentine’s Day
66. Make up our own holiday and celebrate it
67. Have a scary movie party
68. Go trick or treating when it’s not Halloween
69. Learn to knit/crochet
70. Have a tea party with dolls. Burp rudely and blame them.
71. Hide Easter eggs around church
72. Find out how many licks to the center of a tootsie pop
73. Play pin the tail on the donkey
74. Get a baby doll and pretend it’s real
75. Camp out in the living room
76. Go to a concert
77. Watch Veggie Tales
78. Sing karaoke
79. Go to a mall with no money
80. Drive around until we empty a full tank of gas
81. Write a survival guide
82. E-mail an angry complaint letter to someone
83. Walk around on a sunny day with umbrellas
84. Sticky note Amie’s face
85. Build a fort
86. Write a how-to article
87. Do a corn maze
88. Play with play-doh
89. Run in sprinklers
90. Fork Juj’s floor
91. Blow bubbles
92. Play “honey, if you love me smile” in our small groups
93. Take pictures with a squash that has a face
94. Make a scavenger hunt for each other
95. Dance with a broom
96. Grow a flower
97. Color a picture and hang it on the next fridge we see
98. Color a whole coloring book together
99. Go to the zoo
100. Make something useful out of duct tape
101. Do everything on this list!