4 Easy Steps to a Successful Valentine's Party in 1st Grade
1. When party is scheduled for 1:30 pm, make sure you have lots of work ready to fill up time period from 7:30 am-1:30 pm.
2. Don't be me. Because if you are me, and you get a little unnerved by messiness and disorder, a party with sugar-saturated 1st graders will pretty much make you crazy.
3. Medicate. Take anything and everything you can find. Pain relievers, muscle relaxers, anti-depressants... (JK, Mom!)
4. At the end of the day, when the kids have left and you are sitting among the disarray, go ahead and pick up the Redi-whip and eat it straight from the can. Go ahead. Do it. It makes you feel so much better.
7 comments:
I am the first to comment on your new post! wooohoooooooooo! i have actually not left my computer since last week-waiting ever so patiently for a Musing!
and this one did not dissappoint!
i feel ya, girl. my kids were off the chain today. i can get a bit crazed from all the disarray myself! and i gots lots o'gifts too. ain't it grand?
I am absolutely positive that's where all your parents were last night...they skipped conferences to shop for the PERFECT Valentine gift for you!!!
Don't feel too bad. It's 10:30pm and your wild nephews are literally screaming and slamming into walls.
Tee hee. I do not envy you! A friend and I were musing just the other day over the fact that school (insert holiday here) parties have gotten to be much bigger Shindigs than we ever had. We were lucky to get those little round shortbread cookies (that you always wore as rings) and kool-aid. Now, the parties are full of fancy cupcakes, fruit, juice, chips, crackers and cheese (no less!), etc. And every mom sends some sort of candy attached to the valentine. I was the boring mom who sent out valentines with (gasp at the horror: temporary tatoos). That's me: De-sugaring America's Children, One Holiday at a Time.
Happy V-Day Week: 'Cause you know they are eating all those foil wrapped chocolate goodies for breakfast and then coming to school! :)
wooohooo a new post and girl it's great! I must say that I thought of all those elm. teachers as I pulled into the high school. The long line of cars waiting to unload their kid's v-day party stuff. How much stuff do you need for a party anyway? To top it off, a lady I work with sent her kid to school with a fever b/c he "did not want to miss his BIG party". And that's why we send our kids to school folks.
Glad to know you survived Valentines day. I took the next two days to recover at home--no, josey's sick.
How in the world did I not know you had the FLU? Kid snot gets everywhere!
again that was me tanya--not anonymous!
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