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A man was being tailgated by a stressed out woman on a busy boulevard. Suddenly, the light turned yellow, just in front of him. He did the right thing, stopping at the crosswalk, even though he could have beaten the red light by accelerating through the intersection.

The tailgating woman was furious and honked her horn, screaming in frustration, as she missed her chance to get through the intersection, dropping her cell phone and makeup. As she was still in mid-rant, she heard a tap on her window and looked up into the face of a very serious police officer. The officer ordered her to exit her car with her hands up.

He took her to the police station where she was searched, fingerprinted, photographed, and placed in a holding cell. After a couple of hours, a policeman approached the cell and opened the door. She was escorted back to the booking desk where the arresting officer was waiting with her personal effects.

He said, ''I'm very sorry for this mistake. You see, I pulled up behind your car while you were blowing your horn, flipping off the guy in front of you and cussing a blue streak at him. I noticed the 'What Would Jesus Do' bumper sticker, the 'Choose Life' license plate holder, the 'Follow Me to Sunday-School' bumper sticker, and the chrome-plated Christian fish emblem on the trunk. So naturally... I assumed you had stolen the car.''

Detroit Red Wings 2009 Draft Picks

NAME ------------ POS ---- RND -- PICK (OVR) --- FORMER TEAM
Landon Ferraro ---- C ----- 2 ------ 2 (32) ------ Red Deer
Tomas Tatar ------- C ----- 2 ----- 30 (60) ------ Zvolen
Andrej Nestrasil -- RW/C -- 3 ----- 14 (75) ------ Victoriaville
Gleason Fournier -- D ----- 3 ----- 29 (90) ------ Rimouski
Nick Jensen ------- D ----- 5 ----- 29 (150) ----- Green Bay
Mitchell Callahan - RW ---- 6 ----- 29 (180) ----- Kelowna
Adam Almqvist ----- D ----- 7 ----- 29 (210) ----- Hv 71 Jr.

Well, Stevie is officially done with kindergarten. It's amazing how much he has grown this year. He is reading now (when he's in the mood), writing very legibly, and adding and subtracting. What happened to the days of kindergarten being about playing?!?

The kindergarten classes took a field trip to the zoo a week before the end of school. Steven wanted me to ride the school bus with him, so I did (reluctantly). He also did not want Danny to come with us because he was afraid that Danny would "slow us down."

We spent the day walking around with his friend Cameron and Cameron's family.

We ate lunch at the picnic area and then headed home on the bus. We had a good time, only wished we had more time to spend looking at the animals.

With the school being new this year, the principal/teachers decided to start some new traditions like a kindergarten program at the end of the year. The afternoon of the kindergarten program/graduation, I received a call from the school. The office secretary was calling because Steven had fallen on the playground and hit his head. They wanted me to come pick him up because they were not comfortable sending him on the bus as he was very sleepy. Great. Luckily, the school is only about 3 minutes from where I work. So, I get there and find Steven in the office with a big ice pack on his head. He takes the ice pack off and oh my goodness he has a huge goose egg on his head. From what I understand, it was time to come in from recess and he ran down the stairs on the playground equipment and fell. He hit his head on a metal bar. So, I took him back to work with me and he colored a bunch of pictures while I finished up at work.

We arrived back at the school for the kindergarten program and we were overwhelmed with questions about his head by office staff and teachers. The program was very cute and Steven was front and center with his big bruised head. They sang 10 songs (some with motions) that they had learned over the course of the year including "What a Wonderful World". Too cute.

Steven adores his teacher and wanted to make sure he got a picture with her... (note the bump/bruise on the right side of his head)

Nana and Boppa (Mike's parents) came to the program and brought Stevie a cool graduation monkey too!

It's hard to believe his first year of school is done!

Can't wait. It totally snuck up on me. I can't believe it's a month from yesterday! Anyway, we're pretty far behind on the "project management" piece so I need to get on the ball.

I'll hopefully have a post before we go and will certainly have a full wrapup when we return.

'Till then...

A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife, looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was not far off he asked what she'd like to have for her Birthday.

"I'd like to be six again," she replied, still looking in the mirror.

On the morning of her Birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Lucky Charms, and then took her to Six Flags theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park; the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, everything there was.

Five hours later they staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and her stomach felt upside down. He then took her to a McDonald's where he ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a chocolate shake.

Then it was off to a movie, popcorn, a soda pop, and her favorite candy, M&M's. What a fabulous adventure!

Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted.

He leaned over his wife with a big smile and lovingly asked, "Well Dear, what was it like being six again?"

Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. "I meant my dress size, you idiot!!!"

The moral of the story: Even when a man is listening, he is gonna get it wrong.