Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Where did that come from?

Someone asked me a couple of days ago where the name for this blog came from. It's a rather dopey (and embarassing) story, but here goes.

When we lived in San Jose, California, we used to drive over and spend the weekend with my parents and sister who live in Los Banos. It's about 70 miles away, and we would often arrive late Friday afternoon.

The area they live in is very rural, with lots of fields on either side of the roads. One visit we made a turn so that the setting sun was on our left and a recently harvested field was on our right. We were able to view our shadows as we drove along.

Soon all of us were waving our arms and rocking our heads back and forth so we could see our shadows moving.

Suddenly it hit us all how dumb we were acting. "I guess," Stan said, "the Mullis' are just easily amused." So it seems ......

3 comments:

Tiffany said...

I can't think of a better way to be in this life than "easily amused"! I LOVE it! Maybe that's why you get along so well with our crazy family...we easily amuse you! Haha!

Rach said...

What a cute story!! I think everyone should be "easily amused". What a blessing it is to be able to enjoy the little things and have fun!

Maureen said...

True enough, the simple things in life keep you going, don't they? And in these tough economic times it's a good thing to be able to have fun without spending a lot of money!