New England Funnies

I just came across these, and thought they were hilarious!! New Englanders really are like this, too... :-D

To the European, a Yankee is an American.
To an American, a Yankee is a New Englander.
To a New Englander, a Yankee is a Vermonter.
To a Vermonter, a Yankee is someone who eats apple pie for breakfast.
And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast
a Yankee is someone who eats it with a knife.
~An old Yankee joke

"What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing." ~ Willem Lange

Random New England 'proverbs':

"You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a chair to sit on."

"It won't be warm till the snow gets off the mountain, and the snow won't get off the mountain till it gets warm."

"Talk less and say more"

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."

"We have two seasons: winter and the Fourth of July."

"In New England we have nine months of winter and three months of darned poor sledding."

"An ounce of experience is worth a pound of theory."

"The quickest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time."

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." ~Robert Frost, poet from Vermont.

Little People

I like to try remembering the sweet, surprising, absurd things that my nieces/nephews do, and don't usually unless I write them down! But I thought others might enjoy them as well... It is, I think, so special because kids are experiencing most things in their lives for the first time-- and their excitement about the 'newness' of life is refreshing for us old fogies :-) So this is a 'running record' of those 'things that they do'.

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Phoebe and Fiona can't talk yet... except the scattered few words, and 'Mommy' and 'Daddy', but... they definitely know how to express themselves. When they want or need something, they have a habit of going, "Mmmm, Mmmmm, Mmmm..." We've gotten so used to it that it has almost become a part of OUR vocabulary! Anyhow, we have this stuffed monkey that has velcro on its hands and feet, so it can 'hug' people. This morning I showed Fiona how it can hug her, and now every time the velcro comes undone, she comes to me, "Mmm, Mmm, Mmmm..."! so I can make him hug her again. :-)