Knuckle Patch

What you just thought was my sentiments exactly: WTF is 'knuckle patch'???

Ian and I were playing "Rock, Paper, Scissors" this morning and a few minutes into the game he pulled this move: He throws his hand out, turned his palm up, spread his finger apart (bent at the knuckles) and called "knuckle patch".

(dramatic pause, because I know all of you are actually doing the hand gesture to see what I'm describing...go ahead, don't be ashamed. No one is watching).

Ok, now that you have a visual, I exclaimed "What is a knuckle patch????" Ian proceeds to tell me that it is like rock, paper or scissors, but it can beat anything.

Wait, what?

I started to question Ian about this new, fandangled "knuckle patch":

Me: When can you throw a knuckle patch?
Ian: anytime.

Me: You can throw a knuckle patch anytime in the game?
Ian: Yeah, except for the first hand. You can't do it the first time, but anytime after that you can.

Me: And knuckle patch will always beat everything else?
Ian: Yeah.

Me: And nothing can ever beat knuckle patch?
Ian: No dad! (getting all pissy)

Me(all annoyed): So what is the point????

Yes, I actually asked Ian in an annoyed tone of voice what the purpose of a 'knuckle patch' was. *sigh*. I made sure he knew I wasn't annoyed at him, but then we started discussing the stupidity of knuckle patch. C'mon, seriously: Why not just throw knuckle patch every single time? Well, I bet if you had arthritis it would hard to do repeatedly, but I'm assuming that kids playing rock, paper, scissors, knuckle patch don't have joint problems.

Since I had no where to go, I decided to dig a little deeper into this. As it turns out, Ian plays this game on the bus coming home from school and that his friend 'Lucas' taught him this faulty version. I don't know 'Lucas', but someone needs to have a sit down with him and get to the bottom of these shenanigans.

I consider myself to be pretty liberal and I think change can be a great thing, but there are some things that you just don't mess with.

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Okay, now that THAT is out of the way let's talk about the big elephant in the room: Where the hell have you guys been? I've been looking all over for you and couldn't...seem to....find...you..No? Bah, I tried. I know, I know, it's been SOO long since I've blogged. Let's see, what has happened since June?

Oh, I know!:

*We moved!!
*I took an awesome hiking/camping trip with some great friends to the White Mountains in NH (my new favorite place to go!)
*Ian learned how to swim
*Ian started kindergaren
*Ian is learning how to read
*Leah became potty trained (for the most part)
*Leah started preschool
*Leah started a 'creative dance' class
*I accepted a new role at our church (Sunday School Superintendent)
*I am back in school (working on completing prerequisite classes so I can apply to Nursing School)
*and I'm sure there is a bunch of other crap.

So needless to say it has been a crazy and hectic summer/beginning of the school year. I honestly believe that, as an adult, I've never been as busy as I am now.

But you know what? I'll go one step further: I honestly believe that, as an adult, I've never been happier than I am now. Life is just awesome right now: We're in a great home, the kids are...well, they have their moments, but they are at a fun age right now, I'm doing things that I enjoy and am working towards something, Allison didn't high tail it out of here after our 9 year anniversary, you know, lots of good things!

I've been holding off on updating this thing because I was waiting for something funnier than the day at the movie theater. You know what, I could be waiting a long time! Although I particularly enjoy a website that has recently surfaced in the news. It really makes me want to scrap my plans to apply to Nursing School and just be an employee at Wal-Mart. If you haven't done so yet, check out peopleofwalmart.com. Imagine the fodder I'd have people watching there!!!

I'll try to update this more often, I promise.