Week in Review...

Well. It has been quite the week. Four down, one to go. I think I am ready for a few weeks of vacation (which are coming this friday...first hiking in NH, then to the beach in NC :) ) A few noteworthy moments from this past week...

At worship, our priest in residence was talking about the parable of the prodigal son. Allow me to preface this by saying that this man is like the definition of "grandfatherly:" balding, glasses, soft spoken, gentle... He was reading the story from the Message and came to a part where it described the prodigal son as having spent his money on whores. He paused. "Do you know what whores are?" The kids stared blankly, so he defined it for them. "Hoes." That word coming out of his mouth struck all of us as hilarious... (and yes, I did just check urbandictionary.com to make sure I pluralized it correctly....)

The 8th graders are making balances in class (out of pop cans, straws, string and clothespins, they are pretty sweet). One kid couldn't get his to balance..."Hey, my balance has a G lean!"

The other day the Lone Ranger looked at me as I was giving them instructions,
"hey, your eyes are green!"
me: "Well, sometimes they're green, sometimes they're brown, they're actually hazel."
LR: *Sigh* "Why can't I have sexy eyes?"

We took the kids to a baseball game this past week, which was fun. They didn't all fit in the van, so two of them rode with some of the staff. As we were waiting for them to get in the car, we decided that we got to pick the music. And we picked Rascal Flatts. You should have heard their whining, "pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease, let us listen to our music! anything else!!" I told them that this is what we called a "cultural experience." And by the time we got to the field, we had one of them singing along and confessing that she actually liked it :)
So we switched to Phil Collins for the ride home...