school today was pretty routine...we came to agreement on field trips and then we made dr. jones rub her temples, and close her eyes a few times...i'm not sure if it was that she was taking a nap, trying to find her quiet place or genuinely trying to focus on the issue at hand. we are certainly an animated bunch-so much to say and so little space in which to say it. it's hard to get a word in edgewise when you're with us. trust me, there will never be a want for words.
i don't know that we came to any real solution, but it was good to have our red ribbon people in to talk to the kids about not doing drugs. according to the kids margaritas are a drug. afterward, the kids received multi-colored bracelets. one of the boys said, isn't that like the hippies wear? (thinking of tie-dye) and i smiled and said, "hmm, yep..go ask the visitor." and she yes, then he said, "hey! we're hippies!" isn't that the antithesis of red-ribbon week?? the kids had no idea about that, though.
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| i told the kids it wasn't really tie dye, it was multi-colored to symbolize multiculturalism. they fell for it. |
lunch today was so relaxing! i just had a salad in my room and let yo yo ma serenade me with a few cello pieces. it was wonderful!
on the way home, my thoughts went the the old show:
that's incredible! i remember we used to sit around and watch that as family time back in the early 80's before we moved to honduras in 83. it was great to see the incredible feats, medical mysteries, etc. it ran from 1980-1984. strangely it was taken off air a year after we moved. perhaps we were their viewing base...so they had to cancel when we moved. i'd love to go back and see what things we thought were incredible back then! i wonder how many things might have been precursors to breakthroughs that have happened since then.
tomorrow is sunglasses day...wonder if i have any that are light enough to wear inside...oh, this is when i wish i had blu-blockers! perhaps i will stop by a gas station tomorrow and see if they have any...hmm...
hope at the end of the day you have done something that people could yell at you,
"that's incredible!"
julie
I was just trying to explain to Andrew what I meant by saying "That's Incredible!" a few days ago. Of course, my bland description did it no justice. Speaking of early 80's t.v. - I remember when Dad and Mom let me write a letter to the t.v. station because they moved the Incredible Hulk to wednesday nights. Which meant, of course, that WE couldn't watch it, for obvious reasons - church. Oh well, at least we still had them Duke boys to watch. (And by the way Andrew has now officially seen EVERY episode of Dukes Of Hazard including the season with the "fake Dukes" you know-Coy and Vance)
ReplyDeleteLove ya Sis - Heading off to work now.
i'd forgotten about the fake dukes! i'm so glad you're raising andrew right! (everyone needs to be exposed to the original duke boys!)i was a little jealous when one of my friends got a huge john schneider poster from the hot dog magazine!
ReplyDeletei didn't know you wrote a letter to the station about the hulk! i'll have to tell my students about that when we discuss persuasion papers in writing!