Another school year is in the books. And those books have been recycled, along with other miscellaneous items. It was a bit of a chore to go through all the stuff these 3 monkeys brought home over the last couple days. Gotta save the scissors and big erasers and clipboards and such, and sort through and throw out the dried up markers and broken crayons.
Yay for a 3 month break from homework! No more signing planners every night and checking math worksheets and keeping track of all the minutes the kids read for their reading logs and remembering when library day is, etc.
Adrienne finished 3rd grade, and Nicky is a Kindergarten grad. Michael is officially done with elementary school. Lots of changes for him next year, notably that he'll get on the middle-school bound bus at 7 a.m. (yuck), and have 3 different locker combinations to remember.
Among the 'keep' items I sorted through is Adrienne's rather amusing journal. She has a definite
stream of consciousness style of writing. Here are a couple entries:
11/2/09
Over the weekend was...halloween. Oh boy! All that candy in my tummy! Well...I guess I should calm myself down a little...or a lot. My nanna and pappa came over on halloween and sunday. Last night I watched a halloween movie. The movie was called...uh, I can't remember.
And probably my fav:
11/3/09
One time my little brother drawed on the carpet with a marker. When my parents asked "Sombody put that marker away!" I put it away, and my mom said, "you know not to do such a thing like that!" My dad said, "I don't know if that is a stain!" Well...sorry, it was not a stain. Because it was a red washable marker.
It was laugh-out-loudable to read our chastisements from her point of view (not to mention the mild snark), but it made me a bit nervous to continue reading. All in all, though, she didn't disclose anything dreadfully alarming about our home life. Not that there's anything dreadful to...ah, nevermind.
