And the emotional roller-coaster goes up once more...
Thanks for dragging me to school today, Mom. I had a great day with the kids.
Today was my mother's last day of class. She's free from the kids for the winter holidays. She's still really stressed about the upcoming family X-mas party which she must host, but anyway, she brought me to school to help with the kids.
We went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks in the theatre today. It was surprisingly good for a film that only got rated half a star in the Gazette's entertainment section. The kids sitting behind me in the theatre were in my mom's class last year, and they remembered me! The movie was really cute. I didn't know that Alvin and the Chipmunks were almost 50 years old! It's true: Mom was seven when the Witch-Doctor song first was played on the radio. And here I was thinking they were an 80's phenomenon. If I had mentionned that at MWOS they'd have laughed at me for being young.
Unfortunately we had to walk two and from the cinema, which was a chore because kids never walk very fast in the best of times, and when they're wearing snowpants and clunky boots it just makes them that much slower. Then, when we got to the theatre, they experienced technical difficulties, so I amused myself by singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall. On the way back one of the girls in my mom's class said she wanted to be my line-buddy. (I melted in a pile of wibble on the inside, really I did.)
When we got back from the movie, the kids were so tired they ate lunch in absolute SILENCE. Mom thinks this is really funny.
The kids spent the afternoon playing and decorating gingerbread cookies. I spent the time correcting the kids' logix puzzles, undecorating the class, and putting goodies in the paper stockings that the kids had made in a previous class. I looked at the kids decorating cookies from time to time and was all like: aww, that looks like fun, I want to make some too. So when there turned out to be a gingerbread man left over, Mom let me decorate it! The plate fell on the floor and the man's head broke off, but I was amused by my zombie cookie. I never got to eat it, because one of the kid's cookies fell on the floor and I donated mine to him, but that's okay.
I was sitting next to the kids playing lego, and one of them said that another kid couldn't be a good guy because the bionicle she was playing with was a bad guy. So I told the kids that even bad-guys can switch sides, and solved the argument. I'm obscenely pleased about this because of Zuko's recent change of heart in Avatar. The latest episode where he finally joins up with the GAang has so many adorable!Zuko moments.
Or maybe my present good humour is only due to the amount of sugar I've had today. 3 timbits, one mini-chocolate-chip muffin, 4 pieces of rice-crispie squares that were donated by a kid's mom, 3 clementines, a handful of smarties, a chocolate thingamajigger, and some strange confection composed entirely of sugar.
I really feel cheered up now.
Today was my mother's last day of class. She's free from the kids for the winter holidays. She's still really stressed about the upcoming family X-mas party which she must host, but anyway, she brought me to school to help with the kids.
We went to see Alvin and the Chipmunks in the theatre today. It was surprisingly good for a film that only got rated half a star in the Gazette's entertainment section. The kids sitting behind me in the theatre were in my mom's class last year, and they remembered me! The movie was really cute. I didn't know that Alvin and the Chipmunks were almost 50 years old! It's true: Mom was seven when the Witch-Doctor song first was played on the radio. And here I was thinking they were an 80's phenomenon. If I had mentionned that at MWOS they'd have laughed at me for being young.
Unfortunately we had to walk two and from the cinema, which was a chore because kids never walk very fast in the best of times, and when they're wearing snowpants and clunky boots it just makes them that much slower. Then, when we got to the theatre, they experienced technical difficulties, so I amused myself by singing 100 bottles of beer on the wall. On the way back one of the girls in my mom's class said she wanted to be my line-buddy. (I melted in a pile of wibble on the inside, really I did.)
When we got back from the movie, the kids were so tired they ate lunch in absolute SILENCE. Mom thinks this is really funny.
The kids spent the afternoon playing and decorating gingerbread cookies. I spent the time correcting the kids' logix puzzles, undecorating the class, and putting goodies in the paper stockings that the kids had made in a previous class. I looked at the kids decorating cookies from time to time and was all like: aww, that looks like fun, I want to make some too. So when there turned out to be a gingerbread man left over, Mom let me decorate it! The plate fell on the floor and the man's head broke off, but I was amused by my zombie cookie. I never got to eat it, because one of the kid's cookies fell on the floor and I donated mine to him, but that's okay.
I was sitting next to the kids playing lego, and one of them said that another kid couldn't be a good guy because the bionicle she was playing with was a bad guy. So I told the kids that even bad-guys can switch sides, and solved the argument. I'm obscenely pleased about this because of Zuko's recent change of heart in Avatar. The latest episode where he finally joins up with the GAang has so many adorable!Zuko moments.
Or maybe my present good humour is only due to the amount of sugar I've had today. 3 timbits, one mini-chocolate-chip muffin, 4 pieces of rice-crispie squares that were donated by a kid's mom, 3 clementines, a handful of smarties, a chocolate thingamajigger, and some strange confection composed entirely of sugar.
I really feel cheered up now.