Adventures in La La Land

Another fun week full of Christmas goodness!! 1. I've seen a few facebook posts lately "shaming" moms who brag about all the amazing things they do with their kids at Christmas time, and I really hope I don't come across as one of them. For one thing, I do most of my sharing here on my blog, so you don't have to see it if you don't want to. 😂 Secondly, you guys know my kids and I are hot messes, right? You know for every one activity I do with them they watch 3 hours of TV. You know that I'm only a fun mom during Christmas and the rest of the year they're on their own. Lol. Just want to clear that up. I can't stand pretense, and I never want to be anything other than authentic! In fact, this year's Advent Activities have been the most anticlimactic ever. I forget to set it out the night before about 60% of the time. Most of the time I don't even know we're supposed to be doing that day. St. Nick's Day was Dec. 6, but I forgot to pu...

What a crazy week! 1. On Monday, we got up and went to school as usual. It's my day to work in the library, so I started the day with my usual duties: checking in books, putting them back on the shelf, and choosing a few books to feature that day. At 9:00, I go down the hall to aide in art class with the Kindergarteners. Before I even made it through the door, an announcement came on over the speakers saying that as the day's attendance was logged, they realized that more than 20% of the student body was out sick. Apparently our bylaws mandate that the school close in that instance, so everyone had to go home! I heard cheering all down the halls. Haha. (And before you ask, no it's not covid. It's the weird fever/stomach ache/exhaustion/sore throat/dry cough virus that's going around.) Our administrator also informed us that we'd be closed on Tuesday as well to give everyone another day to recover. And then Tuesday afternoon, we got an email that there were still...