Day 8: My Sky

I took this picture last weekend when the weather was beautiful.

I'm glad I did since the weather wasn't really cooperating today.

It was cold, and windy, and wet.

But we couldn't avoid it because tonight was open house at the school.

Open house in Frisco ISD is a come and go thing.

If I have learned anything in the last three years that Hayden has been in school,

it's that "come and go" means come at the end of the window so that you can

easily get a good parking spot. Front Row, no less!

All was well at Open House.

We talked to the teachers.

We looked through math journals and reading journals.

We watched Hayden's PowerPoint presentation he created about Boa Constrictors.

We saw the 3D model clay project and two of the messiest desks in the whole school.

We walked the halls and gathered papers from each classroom.

Once we felt all the bases had been covered, we headed home.

Except that we had forgotten that it was windy outside.

Very Windy-

All those loose projects and papers that were piled up in the bottom of the stroller

didn't fare too well in the wind.

PAPERS WENT EVERYWHERE!

An explosion of paper work.

Nine weeks of worksheets times two kids = approximately a bajillion papers.

At the time, Jeff was holding a squirmy Blake

and I was pushing sleepy Nathan in the stroller.

The other two were playing tag in the middle of the parking lot (or something equally unsafe).

Jeff and Blake started running in circles chasing down

swirling, whirling papers with very little luck.

For a moment, I abandoned the stroller and attempted to help.

Then I remembered that Nathan was more important than a book report on Boa Constrictors.

So we made the executive decision to just load the kids in the car

and pretend the lose papers did not belong to us.

We were those parents.

Let's hope this was one of the many times that the kids

forgot to put their name on the top of the paper.