Double Take

I just saw this ad, which was embedded in an email promoting Ticketmaster events. At first glance -- due to the style of the lettering in the upper left hand corner and the gold image on the face of the book in the photo -- I thought this was something completely different that what it actually was!

Did it strike you the same way? Doesn't it bear a remarkable resemblance to the two images below? Speaking of strike, better put up the lightning rods!

Who knows? Maybe a member of the church design team is moonlighting for the MJ publisher and it's just stuck in his psyche!

Over the fence

Here are just a few funny things my children have said recently:

After a field trip to the local fire station with his preschool, Josh told us, "Mom and Dad, you need to build a fire pole in our house!"

After I told Mary that the owee in her mouth was a canker sore, she said, "Guess what Josh, I have a kangaroo sore."

At the dinner table Elizabeth shared what she had learned in school about the Titanic sinking. She said it happened almost 100 years ago. Emilie chimed in, "That was when Mom was a little girl!"

Last Saturday morning, Josh woke up, came and climbed in bed with me, and began chatting: "Mom, Porter (the 5 year old son of my daycare/preschool provider) said his dad sleeps at night with no clothes on. He sleeps naked. I told Porter my dad sleeps in garments."

(I thought that last one was an interesting swap of information.)

Today, Mary told our daycare/preschool provider, "Mom likes me to always be cute for school. It's a lot of work!"