Yesterday was the beginning of the second week I have had three kids attending school, full time and I am home.
Greg worried I wouldn’t be able to fill my days and still feel satisfied once this routine became too predictable and mundane.
But new projects are keeping me busy and the time is flying.
In the morning for example, I replaced the felt castors on the bottoms of the kitchen chairs with new ones. I’m working my way up to the dining room.
I can’t wait to see the look on his face.
When I picked up the kids from school, Chloe rambled on about watching tv in her kindergarten class and learning about two buckets. When we do bad things, we are bucket dippers, good things make us bucket fillers.
She tried to describe something in keeping with filling someone’s cup and it over-floweth with love but there was no straying from the bucket theme and actually sounded a bit sloppy like a mop bucket tipping when too many positive thoughts spilled into it. Still, the idea was sound.
When I opened the van door, she said, “Thanks Mom. You just filled my bucket.” And they said tv isn’t educational.
Ellie told me about her first day in her new class after a shuffle erupted at the end of last week and shocked the Velcroed runners right off the grade twos and threes. “Look to your left, look to your right, (everyone paused to discretely glance in the direction of the one kid who knew their left from right) one of you won’t be here on Monday…..mwha ha ha.”
Ellie made the switch without incident.
Here’s what I like about how her new teacher handled the introduction into her classroom.
Ellie told me, “Mom, when our teacher took the attendance in the morning, because I was new to the class, instead of saying ‘here’ when she called your name, you had to say ‘Ellie.’ So she would call out, ‘Jayden’ and Jayden would reply, ‘Ellie.’ It made me smile so much I had tears running down my cheeks. When she called out ‘Ellie’ I couldn’t even answer because we were all laughing so hard.'”
Kudos to Ellie’s teacher. You old bucket filler!
