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I AM NOT A HOCKEY MOM.

 

that is all.

 

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Mark (age 8), at supper:   "I've only ever lost Golden Time [free time on Friday afternoons at school] once, and that was for being short-tempered."

 

General laughter all around, because this was a pretty random comment and he IS short-tempered.

 

Mummy: "Did that happen this year?"

 

Mark: "Yes." Cautiously: "In assembly. There were all these people making a noise and I hit somebody. BY ACCIDENT!"

 

All: "BY ACCIDENT!" Mummy: "How did you hit somebody by accident?"

 

Mark: "Well, I was telling everyone to be quiet and I waved my arm and it hit someone."

 

Mummy: "So wait, let me get this straight--these kids were making a noise and you waved your arms around and yelled at them to be quiet, in the middle of assembly?"

 

Mark: "I just waved ONE arm."

 

Mummy: "So did the whole school see this?" To Sara (age 11): "Did you see it?"

 

Sara: "Yep. It was yesterday."

 

Mummy: "Wait a minute, Mark, you got told off in front of the WHOLE SCHOOL YESTERDAY FOR HITTING SOMEONE AND SHOUTING IN THE MIDDLE OF ASSEMBLY?"

 

Sara: "Yep, he had to stand on the stage and apologize."

 

Mummy & Daddy: "WHAAAAT?"

 

Sara, laughing: "No he didn't."

 

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Lately Sara has been making these utterly believable deadpan remarks that really crack me up. The other day she and Mark were arguing about what the moon is made of. Mark said sagely, "It isn't really made of cheese. It's made of rock." Sara, with authority, as though she'd read it in an encyclopedia, said musingly, "It used to be made of cheese, actually, but then it hardened."

 

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She had a great time at Dalguise. This is what she did:

 

• Archery
• "Jacob's ladder" --a sort of log ladder thing, where the kids are roped to each other and help each other climb
• Challenge course (some of this was a bit sadistic--they had to stand in a line filling each other's rubber hoods with water and then put the person's hood up)
• Raft building
• Giant swing
• Forest trail
• quad biking
• zip line
• orienteering
• climbing wall
• sensory trail (blindfolded)

 

This is what she didn't do:

• trapezing (but she had to jump down to get off the platform anyway--roped up, of course--the leader told her if she didn't jump he'd pull her off!)
• abseiling--didn't even think about it

 

I have got a funny picture of her sitting in the kitchen when she got back, sucking on a Rose's lime cordial slush (her favorite drink), playing on the Nintendo DS with the cat on her lap. Decompression.

no that is NOT all

"...other countries that don't care as much about the climate as we do..." --Sarah Palin

THOSE WOULD BE THE 137 OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES THAT AGREE TO THE KYOTO PROTOCOL?????

OH MY GOD.

I'm sorry.  Listening to this stuff on line is a mistake.  It means you can listen and rant at the same time.

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aaah!!! minayi  is ENABLING me. ♥

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