A Long Day

My husband woke me at 5 o'clock to a dark and somewhat cool house. The power was off, and he was leaving for work. He knew there was no way on earth that I would ever wake up without my alarm clock. Unfortunately, 5 o'clock is about an hour too early. And I hadn't gotten much sleep--less than 5 hours, in fact.

I tried to read by candlelight, but that didn't work. (How did Lincoln--happy birthday, Abe!--do it?) Son and I ate pop-tarts and watched a saved Magic School Bus episode on my laptop, before I took him to school and went to work.

At 9:30, I got a Connect Ed call. His high school was still without power and students were being sent home. My husband also received the call, and took off work to go home. He didn't want him to be alone at home if there was no power. They both arrived home at nearly the same time and ten minutes later the power came back on. They had a great afternoon--son playing on his laptop, husband napping on his couch.

And I? I had to answer the question, "When is the field trip?" eighty-seven jillion times because today was the day of our field trip to the dentist's office. When I wasn't doing that, I was answering the question, "When can we pass out our valentines?" Fun, fun, fun!

Actually, I enjoyed the field trip, except for the part when Rotney told everyone that the pink capsules were made from blood so it would make their teeth look bloody. Yuck. Incredibly, some fourth graders will believe anything, if for no reason than the utter grossness of it. When the trip was finally over, they were all very excited to receive free toothbrushes and other dental products, so excited that some readily popped the toothbrush into their mouths to chew on them. I guess that didn't pay close enough attention to the toothbrushing demonstration. . .

Additionally, I gave them the free T-shirts I received last summer from the author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Since everyone immediately donned them, I'm going to extrapolate that they liked them. I thought that since the movie is coming out this week end, they might appreciate them. :)

And the six students who brought valentines to give out made everyone happy. We're not supposed to have a valentines party; they're only allowed to give out cards. Happily, several of the cards had candy attached to them.

A fun time was had by all. :)