mail, meals and misunderstandings...

So it's been awhile. Two glorious weeks of break and two major holidays later it's back to school. I actually missed the kiddos...and it really helps me to have a schedule to follow...so I really don't mind it at all.

Lots of science supplies came in the mail today! Woohoo! (and by lots I mean $1000 worth...three boxes) Unfortunately I discovered them in the office as I was leaving, so I didn't get to open the boxes. Tomorrow morning is going to be like Christmas! I was angry that the PO closed for Gerald Ford's funeral (since all of the mailmen were going to the funeral? I don't really understand that one) because I sort of needed one of the chemicals for class today. But oh well. The smell of death can wait for tomorrow (butyric acid...we are doing a unit on smell chemistry.)

Kids love juice. They all drink like three cartons of it per meal. (the little ones, like milk, only sometimes smaller...) But you know how they are sometimes hard to open? Like you can get them halfway there, but then the carton gets stuck? (this is hard to describe, but work with me) Well that happened to FS yesterday when he was in a hurry to drink it and get to worship, after a feeble attempt he proclaimed "this one's broken!" and tossed it into the trash before I could stop him.

My physics kids are building hovercrafts. No, not big ones, little ones, but maybe we'll build a big one sometime... I was listening in on their planning time today:
"this site says we need a balloon, an old cd, hot glue, a bottle top......what's an adult helper? ...oh...nevermind..."