My Creatively Random Life

On Friday, as is our custom whenever they stay with me instead of going to Dad's, we had movie night.  Now this has evolved greatly since we got Netflix in the house.  It used to be Cat and Ace would each pick a movie and then we would take turns with which one would get to watch their movie first.  If the movie ran long then we would watch the other ones choice the following evening.  A fair system if you ask me.  Now they have so many choices they decided to change they system.  Sometimes it works, sometimes (as in the case of this Friday) not so much.  The new system is some sort of crazy child democracy.  They scroll through their choices each saying what they want until they find something they both agree on.  (5 hours of classic Doctor Who anyone?) It works great until one finds something they really want to watch (Cat and Aliens in The Attic on Friday) and the other one does not want to watch it.  So world war three ...

When we got of the bus this morning for the walk in to daycare the air was rich with the smell of skunk.  Not the best thing to encounter at 7am.  Ace however was immediately enthralled. "Do you think it's a dead skunk or just a scared one?"  He asks, trying to balance the snowpants he refused to wear and walk backwards so he could see me.  "Probably roadkill."  My knowledge of skunks isn't huge but I do know that they are mostly nocturnal animals and the smell is crazy strong. "Do you think if you were driving and you were about to hit a porcupine and it shot quills at your tire you would get a flat tire?" "Huh?" (left field seriously) "Do you think if.." "I heard you buddy, I just thought we were talking about skunks." "I saw a dead porcupine once on the road.  By the McDonald's where we had my birthday party." "Oh, I don't think a porcupine quill could penetrate a tire."  "W...