Favorite Kid-ism of the Week

As hard as my job can be some days and as much as I can complain about it, there are some things that I love. One of those things is the great things kids have to say. As many of you know the things that come out of their mouths are priceless and down right hilarious!

As part of my job I am on recess duty in charge of the Kindergarten and 1st graders. Their playground area is covered with little tire chips instead of wood chips that of course the kids find absolutely irresistible to pick up and throw at each other. I'm constantly having to tell one child or another to, "put the tires down!"

Well the funny part of this story is that this happened on Friday and when I called the child over to question him this is how it went:

"So, were you throwing tires?"

Silence, which is as good a confession as any but I continued.

"Were you throwing tires?"

Another pause

"Not with my hands!"

Quizzical look

(By now the answer is completely clear but trying to keep a straight face and tired again.)

"O-kay?! Did you throw tires?"

"Well, I didn't want to!"

Again 

"But did you throw tires?"

Sigh 

"Yeah"

Sometimes being the mean teacher has it's perks. If I had just let it go and not talked to him about it I would never get to hear the great excuses. Maybe next time someone gets after me I will just look at them all innocent and say, 

"Well, I didn't want to."

Life Lesson Learned

Due to an unfortunate yet hilarious you probably had to be there incident today at work I have learned that you should NEVER take the lid off a partially frozen bottle of pop. 

Because a large group of our after school extension kids are gone to Clear Creek we had a little party (for lack of a better word) with the remaining lone student. We watched a movie and had some treats. Sounds like the perfect way to end a day to me. Unfortunately we had a partially frozen liter of pop that I took to the sink to open, thinking I'll just take the lid off and let is ooze out instead of doing it a little at a time. I was totally unprepared for the explosion that followed. All of a sudden I couldn't see anything, my hair was dripping ice chunks, my sweater as well as the walls and floor were also dripping with stickiness. 

I stood there in shock wondering what was I going to do and feeling just slightly idiotic when in came my friend Kaitlin. She about died laughing at the sight of me. I'm just glad I didn't have to deal with that cold stickiness all day and I got a pretty good laugh out of it as well. 

Sometimes a good laugh is worth the unintentional idiocy.

Some Serious Slacking Going On!

I have not given up on the blogging world life just seems to be consumed with other interests. Can I just mention how much I love having a little free time in the evenings?! I'm able to go to activities, hang out with friends and finally getting some great reading done! Just last night I finished reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett. If you've never read it I recommend it. Although I felt as though I was never making any progress I was glad because I never got bored and didn't want it to end. I love being able to spend my time with a good book!

I would also like to mention how much I hate TV this season. I'm not a huge TV watcher, what I usually watch is online, but every time I try to watch the shows I usually watch it makes me sick. I've had to give up all but 2-3 shows that I watch because of how bad they have gotten. I'm grateful for this but at the same time am very frustrated that such crap (excuse the language) is not only acceptable but is the norm, almost required for the success of a show. Even the safe shows such as Biggest Loser are so much more frustrating to watch than they are worth. I guess the only thing I can say is thank you Hollywood for making it so easy to walk away!

Aren't you glad to have me back? I promise life right now is going pretty good, I am content and one of these days when I'm ready to spread it across the Internet I'll tell you why :) As for now I hope I'm back from this little hiatus and ready to blog away!