Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Every afternoon before going home for the day, we bring the children’s riding toys in from the terrace. More often then not, one or two parents are late picking up their kid, so all the little vehicles have “motors” and the teachers have only to direct traffic. There are three [...]
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 [...]
Chaz does not walk. He hops, bounds and bounces. Today he bounced toward the classroom wearing a huge good morning smile just the way he does every morning.  Well, not exactly the way he does every morning. Today on his way into the room he whacked his cheekbone. Offended, [...]
Parents hate to admit it when their kid isn’t quite where he should be developmentally. Dads especially seem to have a hard time with this. Hey, that’s my kid. He’s perfect! We had one of those dads in today. We recommended that the child see a speech therapist weekly. We [...]
Today in the school cafeteria they served spaghetti. It came accompanied by green salad and fresh pineapple. (Yes, fresh.) There was also milk and homemade dinner rolls. (Yes, homemade.) I kid you not, I have eaten worse food in fancy restaurants. The only damper on the meal is that before [...]