Chasing Time: Who's the Boss?

4.10.2009

Who's the Boss?

I had to work a couple days this week to cover vacations. We stayed the nights before at my Mom's. My Dad took the kids to school today. Apparently I left him totally unprepared and uninformed. Friday is a very important day....
On the way to school Callie started crying because she didn't have anything for show-and-tell. Luckily my Dad had a screwdriver in his car. Callie told her class all about the screwdriver that Grampy uses to fix her toys. Problem solved! But wait, she wasn't done yet. Then she realized it was Coffee and Scram day! The Upper Elementry kids have a little business where they make bakery and sell it with hot chocolate and coffee every Friday morning. They donate the profits to charity. Every Friday we wake up 30 minutes early to go to Coffee and Scram. It would be great if I could motivate the kids like that on the other 4 school days!
So she stops crying about show-and-tell and starts crying about Coffee and Scram. Callie got her Coffee and Scram.

1 comment:

Lana said...: So funny how quick you can come up with a show and tell! We have done the same with Rylan bringing things from the car too.; April 12, 2009 at 12:50 PM

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