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2012-02 Monthly Contest | February 2012
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Start Date: February 1, 2012
End Date: February 29, 2012
Limit: One entry per person
Win a $20 Gift Card from Joann.com!
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To Enter: Add a comment below on this page with "Contest Entry" in the subject and tell us a funny story about your family!
Winner will be determined by a random number generator. Winner will be notified after February 29, 2012 via email address provided in Purple Kitty user account. If no response received within 48 hours of notification, a new winner will be selected. Process will continue until a winner is found.
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My favorite family story is when my sister was around 11 years old. She was home alone and decided to make a batch of brownies. When my mother returned, she wasn't sure if she should be horrified or not that my sister popped over to the neighbors. But she burst out laughing when she heard that she followed the directions on the box and stirred by hand - literally.
Yarn from Joann Fabrics would ensure that I can continue making items for the Shriner's Children's Hospital.
A couple of days before Valentines day I was searching for something chocolate to eat. I made the comment to my husband "don't we have anything chocolate in this house, I need chocolate"!!! He entered the kitchen opened the upper pantry cabinet, took out a few boxes, and reached in and pulled out a candy heart. He must of been hungry for chocolate too, because between the two of us we ate it all before Valentines day!
I can't think of a funny story right now. I do want to say that what I really like about this site are the free vintage crochet patterns. My husband had malignant brain cancer. I spent a lot of time sitting around with him here at home, at doctor's offices, hospitals, etc., which gave me a lot of free time for crocheting. It really helped to occupy my mind and hands to relieve some of the worrying. He lost his 6-year battle with the cancer on Thanksgiving Day 2011. The patterns are now helping to keep me occupied while I deal with the loss. And they are also giving me a big head-start on Christmas gifts this year. Thank you for such a wonderful site!
My 5 year old was watching tv and I went into another room for a minute. When I came back, he was sitting in the chair surrounded by cookie packages. He proudly said with excitement, " look what I found in the cupboard?"
I don't have a funny story. But I love this website for it's variety! Thanks for such a great website!
I am the eldest of six kids - 5 girls and 1 boy. We were one of about 5 or 6 large families in my elementary school. We didn't have much money when we were kids. Mom had to be really creative to entertain us. She also had to be extremely creative when it came to discpline. As you might imagine, there is bound to be conflict with 6 siblings. At one point, as a punishment, we had to scrub walls. Of course, we would be mad to start with but then we would get to giggling and laughing. For awhile, we had the cleanest walls around.
When my brother and I were little my parents had a little red TV with a black and white screen in their bedroom. When either of us were sick they'd move the TV into the room of the sick kid so we could watch TV in bed. One day when my brother was about 2 1/2 he was sick so my parents put the TV on the floor of his bedroom. I happened to walk by his room and saw smoke. I yelled for my mom and turned to see my brother peeing into the vent on the top of the TV. He had to go and for some reason he decided that peeing on the TV would be a good idea.
Funny thing is, that TV still worked for at least another 15 years after that!
Every day is a funny story with our little dog Icarus, a Cockeranian (Cocker Spaniel/Pomeranian mix). At least once a night, he runs off with something like a pen, remote control, tweezers etc.and quickly darts under the table guarding his "prize" until we offer a trade of beef jerky or candy. He also tunnels under a blanket until we keep saying "Where's Ica?", then soon you see a little eye peeking out and a tail wagging like crazy.
One time when a family member used "Foul" language the punishment was to wash the mouth out with soap. With a bar of Ivory in hand she rebelled and took a bite. Immediately she began crying. As she cried, bubbles came pouring out her nose!!! LOL I had a hard time not laughing at the sight of this!!!
One of the funniest stories I can think of involving my family was when we went to Florida for spring break in 1979 to visit my grandparents. We went to Walt Disney World for a day, something that my sister and I had been looking forward to. Dad wanted us to go on the Space Mountain ride, but my mom is afraid of rollercoasters and my grampa had had open heart surgery, so couldn't go. And my dad couldn't take both me and my sister, so my gramma said she'd go with us. My sister sat at my dad's feet in the car [I'm not sure WHY they did that then, because they certainly wouldn't NOW], and I sat at my gramma's feet in the car behind them. Gramma put her glasses in her kneehigh pantyhose [so she wouldn't lose them] and, as we started moving, commented that she hoped the ride wouldn't make her tinkle herself. Yeah, there I was, almost 10yo, sitting between my gramma's legs and she's just said that she might pee her pants from the ride. Thankfully she didn't, but it's a story that makes me giggle every time I remember it or tell it.
My mum has a dog, I am owned by a cat. The cat in barely a quarter the dogs mass and about a fifth her age, and has never once harmed the dog. Yet still the dog is apparently dominated by the cat.
The funny bit is that because of this my Mum has fallen into the practise of chasing/yelling at the cat every time she sees her. This has resulted in some very humerous pursuits between a rather agile kitty and a not-so-agile 58yr old woman, the most memorable of which actually ended with my girlie curled up on my lap feigning sleep when my Mum huffed round the living room door!
there are soooo many tales i can tell you about my family, i have 22 cousins, 15 aunts and uncles, and a dozen or so second cousins ON ONE SIDE OF MY FAMILY. and we are a big bunch of nuts. like no joke.
narrowing it down to a story of my family is one of me and a few other members of said family. LOL.
my uncle mark, older than only my mother out of the bunch of brothers and siters and married-in-laws, has the heart of a child and the brain to sometimes go along with it. he always picks on me. im the shortest of the family, barely 5' tall and presently im 26 years old. at the time i was 14/15 years old and i cant recall my height, but i was always the butt of his jokes,
and one particular party/get togethter we had, he was going really hard on me about my karate lessons, pretending to fight me, pretending to tackle me, and slap me around, and i had it, but i was still playing with him.
I REALLY wasnt trying to hit him or anything around him, i was just pretending to play fight to, but it got in the way...
He was holding a beer and i happen to kick it so perfectly from his hand (missing his hand), and it flew into the air and fell 10ft away from us.
EVERYONE stopped and watched the can fly, and we all held our breath, it hit the floor, my uncle and i looked at each other, AND EVERYONE erupted into laughter than can be heard from this day.
to this day we still laugh about it, i threaten him when he picks on me about kicking another beer can, and this time i might miss the can. and other jokes my cousins say about me,
i just say kick the can, or beer can flying and everyone is laughing
that is just one of thousands of stories of my family.