This is in response to Beth’s post about junk drawers. Lloyd was ordering pizza for his fantasy baseball auction and forgot to put the phone book back in the junk drawer and also forgot to close the drawer. So….can you guess where we keep our catnip?
Archives for March 2007
A Night of Mad Fun!
Last night was the second of our annual fun nights. We used to have dances, but when Scott became principal he said we couldn’t have dances (I think he had a bad experience at a middle school dance), so now we have Fun Nights®. When we first started doing them I didn’t want to have to do very much work, so I asked the senior class sponsor if they wanted to do it as a fund raiser. So the seniors do most of the work, and we have a few teachers to chaperone. We run a dance with a couple of Macs running iTunes and a DJ mixer that I bought at a pawn shop. A dodge ball tournament (12 team double elimination this time) A game room in the library with board and card games. Snacks and drinks in the commons. A tattoo parlor (okay, it’s face painting, but don’t tell the kids). And this time we added an arcade. The arcade was a big hit. We projected Guitar Hero and Dance Dance Revolution onto the big 12’x12′ screens. The dance, dodge ball and board games are “free”; everything else costs 1 of the 6 tickets that they get when they come in.Â
Last night was way too much work for me, though. Both our boys’ and girls’ soccer teams had rain delays that moved their games to Friday. So I had to do more work than usual to set stuff up, but I hijacked the chess club and they did most of it. They were surprisingly efficient. I told them to do something that I thought would take 15 minutes and that I figured I’d have to have them redo once because they didn’t do it right, but no dice. They were faster and did a great job. But even with their help, I didn’t get to eat until 11:00 at night when I had a nutritious dinner of Jalapeño poppers, mozzarella sticks and wings. A good time was had by all.
Potato Bake – Check!
Check it off the list! One more thing done in this crazy March!
The Child Development Center hosts the last Lenten meal, and it’s our annual Baked Potato Dinner. We offer giant baked potatoes with all the fixin’s, salads, and desserts. The children are in charge of decorations – from the littlest to the oldest. The recognizable ones hanging from the ceiling are done by the school-agers, and the preschoolers worked on the tabletop art.
I absolutely love how preschoolers draw with pens. It’s a very true art form. This Mr. Potato Head reminds me of someone….
“Eat QUiznos subs!”
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From Russia with liebe
Sunday’s out-and-abouting also took us to the Germans from Russia museum. They were closed – boo. We walked aroud their little campus though. I always thought it was just one building, but it’s actually several. They have an old-timey church, an old-timey store, an old-timey house, and a tiny little old-timey barn just big enough for one old-timey cow and several super-modern chickens. (We’ll have to actually go inside for proof, though.)
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“It’s an older mailbox, but it checks out.”
My class finished up a study of Mail a while ago, so imagine my surprise when they said they’d be coming out with mailboxes that look like R2-D2! Lincoln has one, so we stopped by on the way to choir to get photos with the celebrity.
(Sorry, I didn’t send out any letters.)
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Cricket’s Love
Tic Tac, the cat who used to hang around and eat all the food I left out, has been gone for sometime, and now I know why. We have a boy kitty hanging around.  He met Cricket the other day and thought she was beautiful. He followed her around the yard, and when ever she’d move he’d make his love sound and sneak closer. She reacted quite well – no actual fighting. In fact, no reaction at all. Pfennig, however, hid by the door and did her little Marge Simpson growl. (It’s pretty pathetic.)