So I haven't made much headway with the other moms in Heath's kindergarten. I think I am the only new-mom-non-Lutheran, so I was already suspect, but now I'm sunk.
Today Heath went to school with a black eye he got at the park yesterday, and we picked up the folder he had left behind the day before. I bemusedly wondered why all the other parents seemed to be just standing around the classroom as I left. When we got home today I checked the folder and found a letter that said that I was supposed to stay this morning (like all the other parents were), instead of dropping off my battered child and going on my way. (Of course, no one, not even the teacher who said "here's the folder Heath left yesterday," bothered to tell me it was a special day--they just silently watched me go). After I had discovered that I had missed the special morning, Heath started telling me school stories, like how he had told his teacher that his brother had gone potty in a forest fire on the day the fireman visited his class. (This, by the way, is ALL Kyle's fault, and is not as bad as it sounds--how could it possibly be as bad as it sounds?) I asked him what his teacher said and he said she said it sounded dangerous, to which He apparently replied "It's ok, he didn't die." I believe it was then that she started asking him about his black eye...
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OH MY!!!!
Heath's world view strikes again.
ps - it's a good thing I didn't hve to pee while I was hollering - 'cause I'm not moving very fast.
Ahhh...the Lutheran stonewall. I know it well. :)
You're a great mom. Your kids have adventures, which is supremely cool. And you take great care of them.
Just remember today if you ever see another parent looking confused or being the "new" one.
Dad & I laughed so hard while reading this 3 or 4 times in a row - then laughed some more when we went to bed - & I laughed when I woke in the night - nice antidote to pain. Thanks, HEATH!
I can just see him saying these things. Love that little one. It's nice her has such a 'sane' big brother.
LOL!!! G-O-O-O-O "Team Petrie"! What "entertaining" kids! Yes, laughter IS the best medicine, Ev! Glad it helped you!
GOOD advice re the new confused looking ones in a "crowd", HB!! We ALL need to take that to heart! (Took me "forever" to even somewhat "fit in" on this side of the state - not "fun" at all!)
How'd that marathon single parent weekend go for you, Win?
mc
It occurred to me that your kids could possibly get pegged as telling "tall tales" if they start talking about their experiences in general. Who, without knowing you, would believe a 5 yr old talking about living in Wifflemania where you could look out a hole in the roof and see the city, and a hill with a giant pile of crosses where if you take them away the crosses keep coming back, and being in the middle of a forest fire, dancing in fountains in Rome, seeing the Mona Lisa, riding on buses with fish, his daddy running an orphange in Cambodia, etc., etc.?
You're right, Heidi. I hope they haven't already been labeled liars. Who knows what else they have said that we don't know about?
Actually, during Heath's original assessment, I believe the teacher was verifying such information. After his session she came up and asked me some "confirmation" type questions about Lithuania, home schooling, vowel races, Rome, Paris, Christmas, beach camping and the like.
She had no idea that I am a trained interrogator.
Heath loves "Beflehem Wlutherem".
Notice that he is starting to get "l"'s?
It also occurred to me, but I don't think so, in general since they can (and have ) back it all up with souveniers and photos and a high level of knowledge. of some fairly obscure things and places.
Cade brought obsidian and an arrowhead to school for show and tell this week. I think his others have been the Eiffel tower, an Asian elephant, and a rubber frog.
Heath has brought photos from the beach camping castle, petrified wood, and (big surprise) a Bionicle.
Heath wants to go to Turkey next and Cade, to Africa.
Little Petrie's Busy, Busy World
Hey! I'll volunteer to "nanny" for BOTH boys at BOTH locations! All you'd have to do is feed me and get me there! ;-) (not necesarily in that order) (SERIOUSLY!)
AuntieM The Great
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