Just for a moment this morning I saw fame and fortune ahead for my family.
It didn’t last long, but for a moment I could see the headlines, imagine the cameras and reporters capturing photos of my mum in her bathrobe as she peeped out of the front door, and hear the ching ching of a sack load of coins being flung into my mum’s piggy bank…
And all because of a little bit of news Miss M saw fit to share with me over breakfast.
Miss M: “Granny is having a baby.”
Me: “Erm, pardon M.”
Miss M: “My Granny is having a baby.”
Me: “Are you sure?”
Miss M: “Well, she likes babies.”
Me: “She does like babies, but I don’t think she’s having one right now. Shall we ring and ask her?”
Miss M: “Yes. ”
We press the buttons. She grins at me and waits for granny to answer.
Miss M: “Granny, are you having a baby soon?”
Granny: “Cough, cough, no M, I’ve had my babies. Your Mummy was my baby.”
Miss M: “But you do like babies granny.”
Granny: “Yes I do M, but I can’t have anymore.”
Miss M: “Oh, ok. Bye den Granny.”
She passes the phone to me and skips off to harass her poorly sister who is curled up on the settee.
Me: “Now, are you sure you’re not having a baby Mum?”
Granny: Snort.
Oh, and I nabbed this cute meme from Akelamalu who was tagged by Mimi Queen of Memes who devised the Message in a Bottle meme.
Here’s the rules:
1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle.
2. Right click and SAVE the blank graphic below
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture
4. Post the Message In a Bottle meme and your creation on your blog along with these rules
5. Tag a minimum of 5 bloggers - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.
I can’t do the Mr. Linky thingie , so head over to this post at Mimi’s and enter your name in the Mr. Linky so others can visit you to see your message in a bottle. Also email Mimi with your message in a bottle so she can put them altogether like she does with the Peace Globes.
I’m sure you’ll agree this message is worth getting out to the masses. 
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oh yes, I always knew chocolate was really a vegetable. Phew. Getting 5 a day will be easy now :o)
Jo your poor mother - fancy including a photo of a Zimmer frame in your post. You’ve painted the picture that she is in her 80s! Maybe your mum had you when she was 16. It might actually be possible that she could have another baby is she wanted to!
You can’t be married to Johnny because I am. We’ve discussed this Jo. Hands off my husband.
I don’t know who’s the more funny today, you or Miss M.
oh crud. i’ve been avoiding vegetables. how COULD i?!?! i’m supposed to eat veggies. right. i’m away to get the greens. i mean, em, browns. . .
sigh. i so wish.
That is hysterical! Thank you for playing…
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oh my goodness…..where does she get this stuff? what a fabulous That cracked me up. I totally need to start writing Sugar’s little stories down, as I forget them within 10 minutes of me laughing my head off at them. sigh…I’m either tired or old….or both.
Belle, I think so. And if you have a creme Egg you get protein too. Fabulous.
Rosie, If my mum had me when she was 16, then she must have had Claire when she was 14, which means my dad should have been arrested, and he definitely wasn’t. And you’re right, my mum isn’t ‘old’ in the slightest, I just like the idea of the two walkers, hee hee.
And Johnny Depp? Mine.
Kim, Miss M did it for me.
Holl, it would be perfect. But I suppose if chocolate was really good for you maybe it would taste bad. That seems to be how these things work.
Corey, you must, they’re too good to miss. I really regret not getting so many of Miss E’s down on paper. I have a few, but I missed loads too. Sigh.
And you cannot be old, as that would make me old. We aren’t old, ok?
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