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First day of Kindergarten(No music) We woke up on time though the alarm didn’t go off so I’m not sure how that happened. Then we found out my youngest son has a high fever and will not be going to school, which means I am not going to work. And for that I am thankful as I need a break. In trying to take his temperature, I dropped and broke the mercury thermometer. So I spent half the morning trying to clean up the glass and little balls of Abe, on the other hand, woke up at once, which is very rare. He started to get his clothes on immediately and the first thing he said was that his ‘nervous left him over night’. He ate his cereal and then got his shoes and socks on. He described his outfit as ’super hero.’ This was important for him. He talked a mile a minute all the way there. We parked a couple of blocks away and walked in, dragging all of the school supplies. Then he got in line with his class. We saw our neighbor friend who got in trouble for coming over, and he mentioned that. Then the Assistant Principal got on the stage and welcomed everybody and had them all wave bye bye to the parents. I definitely teared up at that moment. Then we walked back to the van and went back home. That whole, they grow up in a minute thing, is starting to come true for me, so, thankfully I had the rest of the day with my little one before he grows up too and starts a band and lives by himself. 17 comments to First day of Kindergarten |
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As a concerned parent I’d like to know how you clean up mercury? Also how do you pick it out of your tuna?
When my aunt’s girls were little, somebody over there broke a thermometer into the toilet. A little ball of mercury remained at the the bottom of the toilet for years.
Hold strong girl.
I used to love broken thermometers as kid, the little balls of mercury roll all over the place and then i would sit there and carefully collect them all, and make it back in to one. The whole physics of it was totally fascinating to me.
that is a very sweet story, stacey. they do grow up fast, and mine is not even 2.
I am always thankful to my science class where someone broke a thermometer so I knew that the mercury balls up. Otherwise, how would I have known?
You have to use a thin piece of paper to move it on to another piece of paper to then throw it away. Then get it the hell out of the house as you don’t want to breathe it.
I should have vacuumed it too, and hopefully I will remember that tonight, but it is doubtful.
No clue about out of fish.
Speaking of physics, the director of Abe’s daycare told me a story about how they were doing an Olympics game of carrying a ping pong ball across the floor on a spoon. Abe smashed his to keep it on the spoon more easily. So then they had a science experiment to show how when a smashed ping pong ball is in warm water it pops back out. I had no idea!
Yeah, pretty sweetly and bitterly sad. I really had no idea. I was watching Moses’ favorite show, Kiki’s Delivery Service and it had a whole new meaning for me.
Thanks guys! Also, sorry for the lateness of the post.
our kid had his first day of first grade yesterday. he got time’d out (time out’d?). since he wasn’t understanding that it’s not ok to shove someone your own size who had been acting equally bad, i told him that if he embarrassed me again (by making the teacher unhappy) i was gonna be really pissed off. THAT he understood.
part of me misses the sweetness of toddlers, but i have never laughed so much in my life, as much as our kid has made me laugh in the past year. he’s goddamned comedian, that one.
true story: our principal was removed a few weeks ago for making an ‘off-color’ remark to the teachers in a meeting. she was quietly reinstated a few days before school started. do as i do and not as i say?
time out on the first day – good work!
Um, you really shouldn’t just throw away mercury, cuz it can leak from the landfill into groundwater, etc.
http://www.wikihow.com/Dispose-of-Mercury
http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/index.htm#thermometer
http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/sws/hhw.htm
Yeah Stacey, and then there’s this:
http://www.fye.com/The-Prophecy-Front-Page_stcVVproductId1711418VVcatId455366VVviewprod.htm
And also this:
http://www.wikihow.com/Link-Within-a-Page-Using-HTML
That movie looks awesome. Using HTML tags makes me nervous if I can’t preview my work first.
right. so, no gloves, no sulphur, and I forgot the bag. Thought about it. I can remember that one at least. Next time.
Now, what do you do about those special lightbulbs that are as difficult to deal with if they break?
Conor, you crack me up about wanting to make sure everything is ok before going live. I mean, really, it’s a terrific idea. I love it. But, I had to give it up myself. For a million reasons.
I want you to keep trying though. I could have a bad system.
But others have a similar bad system. This is my favorite facebook quote, or any kind of quote really, and demonstrates our lives at this point:
Guy A is realizing that perfectionism can be a crippling condition and is ironically finding relief in the wisdom of Larry the Cable Guy … “GIT-R-DONE!”
It IS a relief!
Yeah, and don’t forget this: blow me, douchebag
Conor: that movie is awesome. It was released right around the time that Alien was released. I was too scared to see Alien so I caught that one instead. Smart choice as I may well have shit myself had I seen Alien while I was still that young. Prophecy had this ridiculous commercial of a guy hopping around in a sleeping bag and getting swiped by a huge skinless bear-beast of some sort. So, yes, completely awesome.
My dad took me to see It’s Alive when I was like 3. Ok, maybe 6. And that’s why I don’t watch scary movies anymore.
By the time I turned 15, I had already seen the Exorcist, the Omen, Last House on the Left, Halloween, I Spit on Your Grave, the Shinning, and pretty much every horror movie available to second run theaters in the 70s. I was built for horror. Scariest moment that haunted me all through puberty: the sexy lady in the bathtub that turns into the rotten old body in the Shinning.
I guess so.
hey, as an aside, but a cool one, check out this:
http://www.24postcards.co.uk/
Thats cool about the ringtones.
Which reminds me, Cherry Blosom, did you ever make a ringtone out of that two toy piano piece your hotel friend liked?
I read “Wolfen” and “Suffer The Children” when I was 8 or 9. I would sneak my mom’s horror books and read them by the light that came under the door to my room. I think the scariest movie I saw was “The little Girl Who Lived Down The Lane”.. (maybe not even scary) even though the vampire at the window in Salems Lot was pretty scary as a kid.