The IE Mommy

Yesterday we tried a new Chinese food restaurant that was totally amazing and a complete surprise.We thought it was going to be an ultra-casual buffet all you can eat style of restaurant so we dressed extra casual…BOY! We were wrong!
It was very, very nice and the food was delish…so here you are my quotes for today based on Chinese food or Chinese Sayings.

On Chinese food and Chopsticks: “You do not sew with a fork, and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.”
Miss Piggy, ‘Miss Piggy’s Guide to Life’ (1981)

“Talk doesn’t  cook rice.”
(Chinese Proverb)

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people .”
(Chinese Proverb)

Because I can hear my twins arguing over a Wii game right now…I’m dedicating this post to Wii Quotes…Can you believe I actually found some?

“I don’t like the idea of waving my remote at the television; I only do that when it’s out of batteries” – referring to how some games require you to move the Wii-mote around.

“I jog twice a week, play badminton and do weight lifting, no Wii is gonna give me that” – replying to the misconception that the Wii is an exercise machine.

“Do I need to show you my credit Wiiceipt?!”
What I wanted to say when I was buying my Wii, but didn’t say for self-respect reasons.

“Wii Sports: All the frustration of real sports with out the physical exercise.”
— Felix Harneis

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Maybe not an original choice for today’s quotes….but with my hubby and my twins, I can definitely feel the “love” in the air

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

I don’t understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine’s Day.  When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.  ~Author Unknown

For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard

Anyone can catch your eye, but it takes someone special to catch your heart.  ~Author Unknown

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.  ~Author Unknown

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?  ~Author Unknown

We loved with a love that was more than love.  ~Edgar Allan Poe

For God So Loved the World…He gave His Only begotten Son that whoever shall believe in Him shall have everlasting life! ~ John 3:16

Since my  husband just finished vacation…and I feel like we should be starting another one…thought this would be a fun topic – VACATION!

No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.  ~Elbert Hubbard

A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.  ~Author Unknown

The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see.  ~Author Unknown

Laughter is an instant vacation.  ~Milton Berle

Those that say you can’t take it with you never saw a car packed for a vacation trip.  ~Author Unknown

My Aloha Friday question asked if you were a “Football Widow”…and while I will say that I am a 50/50 widow meaning that it depends on the game….I thought I’d have some fun with all and have quotes on  Football.

Mark your calendars for February 7 – Super Bowl Sunday!

“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.”

Bill Shankly

“Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.”

Don Shula quotes

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”

Erma Bombeck

“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.”

Tom Landry

We had a beautiful Snow day yesterday.
Remember I am in So Cal so it was very exciting….especially for the twins!

“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”

“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers”

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event”

“The future lies before you, like paths of pure white snow. Be careful how you tread it, for every step will show.”

In honor of MLK Jr day tomorrow – January 18th – I have included some quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.