The Good The Bad & the Ugly October 02 2007
The Good…
We recently went to Noah’s school for an OPEN HOUSE, he showed us around his new classroom and introduced us to his teacher. His teacher went on and on about how NICE he is and how she can tell he is just a good person. He is always quick to smile and the first one to help a friend. I beamed of course and was slightly speechless, not that my Noah didn’t deserve such praise but you know it’s different when someone else says it. Then we hung around for a bit while he showed me some work. The teacher greeted a LOT of other parents and did not have those things to say to them. Sure she said nice things about the other kids too but not like my Noah.
The Bad…
On Sundays we have started heading to my sister’s house (not feffie) for an afternoon of baking and then dinner. The kids play and I bake, while my sister pours wine and indicates what I should bake for her next. Brendan has a lot of friends in that area from school and last sunday they took him out into the bush to look for salamanders. He proudly came home with three. Mr Squiggles and his friends. He keeps them in moss in a margarine container.
Yesterday afternoon i was sitting on the couch when i caught movement out of the corner, I thought it was probably an ant scurrying across the rug.
WRONG! It an AWOL Mr Squiggles running for the couch. I am not afraid of salamanders and have even held these particular ones but when it’s if running like a bastard across my carpet, I do what any mom would do. I scream like a girl and make brendan come and get it.
“Ayyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeee Brendan! Salamander! AAAAAh!!!!”
The Ugly
I did laundry yesterday. A lot of it. I found a box of SMARTIES in the dryer!!! Yeah someone must’ve had a little hallowe’en box of them in their pants (was not me!) and I found them. After it had been washed….and dried.
Some of the clothes have a burnt chocolate smell to them. I bet Chris has a gaggle of women following him around today like fred flinstone coming home for dinner.