Blog as big sticky note

Remind me the next time I'm whining on and on about canker sores to go back and read yesterday's blog entry. Let me tell you, rinsing my mouth with hydrogen peroxide sure helped! Made me gag a bit and my tummy felt funny for a while, but it worked. I also rinsed once with Benadryl, not quite as icky. My mouth feels much better today. On the way out to the school bus this morning I was asking Emma questions about school and she said "I have a question for you. Is your mouth feeling better? 'Cause you sure are talking better today." Yep. Much better. But talking with Emma for twenty minutes while we waited for the bus did irritate the sores a bit. Time to be quiet. Until Audrey wakes up again of course.

Sounds like Emma had a great day at school yesterday. She knows quite a few kids in her class and one of her good friends from last years class is with her. Also a girl she's known since they were less than a year old and another who is a neighbor. And then there are the boys.....

Emma talked about one of the cool jobs in the classroom. Somebody is designated to be the phone answerer. So if there is an adult in the room and the phone rings the appointed student asks for permission to answer the phone. Emma sounds nervously excited for it to be her turn. She said it looks like she's library person this week.

Justin, Audrey, and I went in to meet Audrey's kindergarten teacher. Coming in with us at the same time was a girl we had met at a couple of birthday parties and knew she'd be in the part-time kindergarten class too. Looking at the names on the board there's also the daughter of some friends of friends of our, and one of the moms in class looked really familiar--the daughter-in-law of some former neighbors. Her daughter will be in the same class.

Have I explained Bay View kindergarten? There is a full-time class. Monday through Friday all day. For the low low price of $250 per month! You guess right, we're not in that one. There's also an all day Tuesday, Thursday, "every other" Friday class. That's the one Audrey is in. A couple weeks ago a second part-time kindergarten class was added---all day Monday, Wednesday, "every other" Friday.

Bay View Elementary School was built to hold 450 students. This year enrollment is 575. The sixth, seventh, and eighth graders are all out in portables behind the school. I'll be voting YES on the bond issue this month. Of course I don't want my property taxes to be even higher, but I also don't want the schools to be that crowded. Kids are being shuffled all around. Before I left the school yesterday morning someone came in with three kids who had gone to the wrong school that morning and were supposed to be at Bay View. Silly kids, they went to the school they'd gone to last year! What were they thinking?? (did you detect a note of sarcasm there? good.) While we still lived in Anacortes I was stressed about which school I wanted to send my kids to. My understanding was that you could request any school. Which one would I choose? The closest one? Or would I let other people's opinions cloud my judgement? And we left there when Emma still had one more year of preschool to finish!! And now I'm in a district that is so overcrowded kids are getting shuffled all over the place regardless of where they live. Maybe if I stay active in the PTA they won't move mine.....

Uh-oh. The computer is telling me that it isn't connecting to blogger. I'm going to post this right now in the hope that I won't lose this entire thing. I'm sure there are typos and misspelled words, but I'm not going to fix that now.