Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Twelve children. Twelve pallets. All are sleeping. The only sounds in the room were K.K.’s and Chez’s baby snores, the soft tap of the computer keys beneath my fingers, and the gentle swish of Ms. Jewel’s paint brush. Suddenly Harold, whom we’ve been nagging about using the potty, sits up [...]
Nap time: Kelly is always so restless he keeps himself and anybody nearby awake. I usually sit next to him which keeps him still and at least allows everyone nearby to go to sleep. Today I sat down beside his pallet. Kelly crossed his arms, “I’m not nappeding!” He announced. [...]
O’Ceallaigh says that it is good that my nose is stuffy. He says that means that I am getting better. Silly me, I thought better involved the stopping of the snotting and running! You see why I keep him around? If it weren’t for his wisdom I might think I [...]
Head stuffy. Throat scratchy. Nose runny. Cough hacky. Head hurty. Work sucky. And TheBus left me sitting at the stop for 75 minutes before it deigned to arrive — and then it was full of school kids with more wire coming from their ears then their braces! One kid had [...]
Barbecue sauce, that is. David-of-the-winsome-grin held up his barbecue sauce packet and said, “Hep, peas.” So I hepped. I took the slimy little packet from his slimy little hand, grasped it tightly and attempted to tear the end. Apparently David had been working on the packet for quite some time [...]