The Barneys: Dreams

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Dreams

Last week, I dreamt about a blue llama that hurdled a fence. It was one of the most vivid and craziest dreams I can remember. Rhett said it would be a fun character for a children's book.

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My much-missed sister-in-law sent me an email the other day with this in it:
Thought I should write you to tell you that I had a dream about you the other night where you came to visit together with your pet rat. You had it sitting on your shoulder and it was very well behaved. You also recommended that everyone have a pet rat of their own.

She ended it with this:
Anyways, let me know if my dream comes true and you actually get a pet rat.

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As I was driving the girls home from school the other day, Summer said, "Mom, I had a dream you forgot me at the store and left me there." I was devastated! What an awful dream for a little three-year-old. And I actually believe she had the dream because I remembered her waking up in the night and calling out. I tried reassuring her that I would never leave her. But she had already moved on and decided to tell me the rest of her dream.

"You took a magazine and didn't pay for it," she said.

5 comments:

Margo said...: So you are a shoplifter, rat owner and child abandon-er. Probably a great day for your self-esteem.; March 28, 2012 at 7:50 AM
Mark said...: Sounds more like a nigthmare. Perhaps you should sleep less. Wow.....; March 28, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Maria said...: Hahaha, what is going on here? Between the lama, the rat and the shoplifting you start wondering!; March 28, 2012 at 12:48 PM
auntanne said...: Thank goodness dreams come while are brain is at rest.; March 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Anonymous said...: I think the pet rats and the blue llama would both make great children's stories! I can't wait to read them.; March 30, 2012 at 11:36 AM

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Favorite Quotes

Posted 2013

Summer, seeing my arm peeling from a sunburn: "Why is it doing that?" Me: "Well, when you sunburn, you just tan. But when I get sunburned, it kills my skin, and then peels off." Summer, worried: "Are you getting very, very old now?" (now in tears) "I don't want you to die!"

Looking in the dishwasher: "I thought there was a black leaf in there, but it's just a craisin!"

Posted approx. 2011-2012

"Heavenly Father, Thanks for I stay in my bed."

Summer, typing away on the computer: "I'm trying to check my oatmeal." (email)

Me to Rhett: "Killer french toast, hun." Summer in shock: "Daddy! You killed her french toast?!?"

During the kissing scene in "Gnomeo and Juliet": "Look--they're kissing. Why are their eyes closed? . . . Maybe there's a lot of sun in their eyes."

After I gave her a piece of cheese: "You're a big girl for sharing, Mom."

Looking out the window: "Mom, please tell the grown ups outside I'll be right back."

Booking it to the toilet: "Mom, it's slidey with socks on."

Jumping on her bed: "Mom, you want to jump with me? It could be fun."

Talking to dad in the morning: "What you doin'?" --- "Getting ready for work." --- "But if you weave, I'll be sad."

"I'm not big. I'm just Summer!"

After waking up in the morning and realizing Dad was gone: "Mom, where's dad?" --- "He's at work." --- "Why?" --- "Because he has to get money for us." --- (Pointing to our change drawer) "But we have money right there!"

"Summer, why do you keep unplugging the TV?" Summer: "Because it's tempted to turn it back on. It's tempted, mom. So I unplug it."

Favorite Quotes

Posted 2013:

"I wish my head was in my mouth so I could see what my tongue was doing."

Rhett, after putting the girls to bed, then having to go down to their room again to tell them to stop talking: "I don't want to hear one more word out of here." Claire, innocently, and just asking to clarify, "How many words, dad?"

Claire told me she had "something" in her underwear. I asked her if she had an accident. She said, "No. I had a tooter and poop came out. Shooted right in there."

Me: "Stick your finger in your ear and see if you can get some of that ear wax out." Claire: "Nooooo. Because we have to lick it and that's how we wash it."

Posted 2012:

Claire: "No fry, baby. No fry." (Don't cry)

Claire, looking at her reflection in the oven glass: "Ook! Ook!" --- "Who is it, Claire?" --- "Nummer! Nummer!"

Things You Get to Say When You're a Parent that You Wouldn't Say Otherwise

"Just sit there until you find your shirt."
"Don't eat my hair."
"Because that's just the way he is. Some people only have one eye." (regarding a minion from "Despicable Me.")
After Claire pooped in the bathtub: "I keep thinking to myself--"Is that broccoli? Or poop? . . . This is like a horror movie."
"She stuck the key in What?!?"
"There's a buggy!" (aka bug)
"Stop eating things out of the garbage!"
"Please don't eat the chapstick."
"Hey! Don't sit on the cheese!"
"You're shirt's on upside down." (Not backwards or inside out, but, yes, upside down)