{"id":1382,"date":"2010-05-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:07:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:07:41","slug":"a-day-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1382","title":{"rendered":"A Day Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work a 9\/80 schedule at work. In other words I work 80 hours over 9 days. That makes for some long hours for the nine days but I get a day off every other Friday. I love it. Last Friday I had a day off. Sweetie and I did a little knocking around.<\/p>\n

First we went to SuperPizzaBoy’s school for the big end of year of conference. Of course we were confused by all the testing results but assured that he is doing fine, they love him, and he is ready to move to Middle School. Ok…. Well darn it he may be ready, but we aren’t! He’s our baby.<\/p>\n

While there we were looking at the stuff hung up in the hallways. I always check that out. Hey what’s this?<\/p>\n

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That is his picture, what’s this? Stories that the kids wrote. SPB wrote a story! Nobody told us? I told you we aren’t ready. He is supposed to tell us everything. He hasn’t. The story is pretty decent, I mean for a 6th grader. Teacher said that she had to shut him down or he’d still be writing. There you go, you can’t advance him until his parents are ready. I’m telling you I don’t care if he would be bored. We aren’t ready for him to go to Middle School.<\/p>\n

I mean for crying out loud we are standing in the hallway reading his dad burned paper like ordinary passerby. <\/p>\n

I guess that you can tell we are going to put the “H” in helicopter parents. Reminds me of these GenX parents. Supposedly at my employer, one of the new hires last year was upset about something his supervisor said about his work performance. His Dad called the supervisor to try and discuss the situation. I don’t know if its true or not, but you have to admit it makes a good story. Sorry I’m way off topic.<\/p>\n

They also had dioramas that the student‘<\/strike>s parents<\/strike> made. I love dioramas and the other hands on stuff SPB has done this year. We didn’t have that 46 years ago wehen I started my elementary education. The only hands on we got was the unpleasant kind from the teachers. Here is SPB’s project. His was on the little brown bat. He really got into it, the diorama was of a cave.<\/p>\n

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I tried to teach him about stalagmites and stalactites and how to remember the difference using something my own mother told me, “The mites go up and the tights go down.” He didn’t quite get it. Probably for the best. I don’t know what his teacher would have thought of that.<\/p>\n

Well after all that trauma and drama we went to Nordaggios to get a couple of coffee drinks. Not only are the drinks great but they are pretty.<\/p>\n

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I mean, how can you drink a work of art? I did though.<\/p>\n

Not bad for a day off, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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