My Design

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My Design

LE and UE:  My mom said I could design and decorate my own room this summer.  I know the color I'll paint it, the design of my bedspread, and the decorations on the wall.

MS: Our cafeteria at school is atrocious.  If I could design a school cafeteria is would...

Cafeteria Design

Theater Set Design

HS:  Guess who is in charge of the set design for the spring play?  Yep, Me.  AND they picked the worst play ever.  I have to design a set for the play....

 Adult Women:  If I could design my kitchen--money no object--here's what I'd do.

Workshop Design

Adult Men:  If I could design my own workshop--money no object--here's what I'd do.

Kitchen Design

My Own Magazine

LE:  If I could design my own magazine it would be about ...

UE:  If I wrote a magazine, it would be about horses.  I would design the cover to show....

MS:  I am going to write a magazine.  The title will be How To Get Noticed By the One You Like.  My advice is...

HS:  I am writing a magazine for teenagers.  Here is the title, cover design, and subjects covered.

A:  I am writing a magazine called How To Please Your Spouse.  Here's my best advice...

Prompted2Write--My Crazy Grandmother

 My mother-in-law provided us with many laughs in her later years.  Here is just one example.  I was driving her to the doctor and she started the conversation:

Her: "My ears are stopped up."

Me: "I'm sorry.  What do we need to do about it?"

Her:  " I don't know.  Brad's ears were stopped up."

Me:  "Oh really?"

Her:  "Oh yeah, he had to call Fedex out to clean them."

Me:  "I did not know that Fedex offered that service."

Her:  "Oh yeah, they'll come if you call them."

 I figured out she was trying to say he called the medics.  There were many more times, but some I can't write on a family friendly blog.  The funny part was that she didn't even know she had something inappropriate.  Please tell me your story.

LE:  My grandmother does the craziest things.  Last week she went on in her yard and...

UE:  If you knew some of the things my grandmother does, you'd laugh your head off.  One time my grandfather found her ...

MS:  My grandmother used to be fairly normal.  Then one day something happened and she has never been the same.  Here's the story..

HS:  I love my grandmother--except when she tries to use teenage slang to tell me something.  She can't keep the words straight and uses them all wrong.  She called my cell phone and tried to tell me about her shopping trip.  Here's what she said..

A:  Raising parents is much harder than raising kids.  At least the kids do somewhat normal things.  My parents do the dumbest things and then I have to take care of it.  Their latest escapade is...

Springtime

Where we live the weather can't decide whether it is spring or still winter.  However, I hold out hope that spring is on its way. 

LE:  In the springtime I get to go outside more.  I like to play...

UE:  In the springtime my older sister starts acting funny.  She ...

MS: It's springtime and the flowers are blooming.  When I smell the flowers I think of...

HS:  It's springtime!!  That means prom is near.  I love prom but I think it could be improved if ...

A:  I'm glad to see winter leave, but springtime means I have to...

Surprise Encounter

I hope you have fun with this story.  Remember, my goal is to help you stretch your imagination.

LE:  I was playing in my yard when I heard a loud thump behind me.  I turned around and saw...

UE:  My family heard a loud thump in the backyard.  My mother went outside to see what it was.  "Oh my gosh."  We heard her scream.  Running to the door, we saw...

MS:  My dad and I were plowing the garden.  Suddenly the tiller hit something hard and stopped.  My dad tried to see what it hit, be couldn't move the dirt.  I went to the shed and got a shovel.  You will never believe what we dug up.

HS: Jeremy always parked his car in the backyard.  That way he didn't park behind one of his parents.  His habit of driving fast, whipping around the back corner of the house, and stopping quickly was the talk of the neighbor.  "You just wait.  One day he will come around that corner and find something he wasn't expecting".  The neighbors would say.  That day came yesterday.  He drove in the driveway, avoided the broken piece of concrete, came around the back of the house, and crashed into...

A:  We received a phone call from one of our dear friends, Albert.  "You have to come over here.  Something has landed in my backyard and I need you."  Now Albert is known to stretch the truth, especially if he has been drinking.  "Describe it to me."  I told him.  This was his description.