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Sometimes parenting is just getting up early

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Tuesday, October 24th, 2017 06:56 am
(Actually, despite the subject line, I got up at my usual time! I just didn't go into work right away, but woke Andrew up and helped him get ready. I'll work later this afternoon, and get the same amount of time and effort in.)

WHEE. Both boys have a field trip today's; Andrew's is long. He had to be at school at 6:45 (an hour before he normally has to be there) and will be back at the end of the school day. But he got up early (when prompted, but without any difficulty getting up), got ready, and actually had time to play games before he had to go out the door.

Ian is awake and mostly ready; his bus to school isn't for another 20 minutes yet. (Their field trip is three hours start-to-finish, so no early arrival for him.)

I suspect the third grade gathering at 6:45 is partly due to how many things they're packing in, and partly due to the fact that they're headed up the Gorge - which means about a 65 mile drive each way, and that they're running the same direction as commute traffic for the first 25 miles or more. I wouldn't want to do that at 8 am, either.
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kyrielle: painterly drawing of a white woman with large dark-blue-framed glasses, hazel eyes, brown hair, and a suspicious lack of blemishes (Default)
Friday, October 13th, 2017 10:42 pm
So. When I pack a banana as a snack, I take a Sharpie and write a little note on it. Sometimes it's sweet or kind or encouraging.

Often it is, instead, a joke. Usually a corny joke - which around here gets called "a Mom joke" if that tells you anything. :)

So, I think earlier this week but maybe it was late last, I sent them in with bananas that read:
Q: What do you call a fish with no eyes?

A: A fsh!

This is funny, and I thought Ian in particular would get a good laugh out of it. I was right, but I was a little underestimating, apparently. At parent-teacher conference yesterday, his teacher told me he enjoyed it greatly. Then he told it to her a couple times. And he told it to all his classmates, all of whom started laughing. (She's not sure they all got it - some just liked saying 'fsh!' she thinks, or found it funny because everyone else did.) Then they told it to each other. And her.

...I wonder how many parents got to hear about fsh! that night.

There's a variant in our house now - I first heard it from Ian, apparently he got it from Andrew, and where Andrew got it I am not sure.
Q: What do you call a fish with no eyes?

A: A leaky pipe! *hand gestures of water splashing out* FSH!


...my Mom joke has been one-upped, even.
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