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Or ways to make your kids say “you suck”.  LOL!  File this under they say the darndest things!

My 16 year old comes into my office and sees a nearly empty bag of pretzels on my desk (yes I”m too lazy to throw it away), and wants to know if he can have some.

I say “sure, except it’s empty”

Roger “There’s still some!” takes the bag of crumbs and runs out of the office just as I say bring me the other bag.  As he’s bringing me the OTHER bad of pretzels Roger says “You suck mom!  These taste gross.  The other ones are better!  Why didn’t you tell me these were FAT FREE!?!?!”

Me “Because they both are fat free.  All pretzels are fat free”.

Roger “Nu uh!!  This bag SAYS “Fat Free” on it and the other one doesn’t.  Why’s that???  HUH??”

Me “Advertising”

Roger checks to see what the back of the bags say and sees that ONCE AGAIN  Mom is RIGHT!!  Both bags have 0 grams of fat.

Roger “But this one tastes gross!  and the other doesn’t!”

Me “Could be because you ate the crumbs from a bag that’s been sitting open for several days”

Roger “You still suck!”

Aren’t teenagers great?

Being a homeschooler means that your children “go” to school whenever you want them to.  Often, we have days off when others don’t, and the reverse is often true as well.  There’s been plenty of Winter “Vacations” that we’re vacations at all for my boys.  That’s one of the nice things about homeschooling, we’re free to do what ever the heck we want, WHEN ever we want!

So today, as I was working in my office (by working I mean sitting at my desk doing pretty much nothing, because it’s a dead day for oversized transportation permits), I noticed that the kids that live behind us were still bouncing on their trampoline at 9am.  Then I noticed the boys next door were in our yard playing soccer.  What the heck was going on???

So I went to our lovely school district website to see what the heck was going on.  Right on their front page they have a little tiny news snippet saying ” Nov. 4th District Wide Staff Development Day”.  Of course there’s nothing saying what they heck that means or why it just happens to be on Election Day.  So I went surfing around the web to see if there were other school districts conveniently taking today off to vote.  Low and behold, they are!  I don’t think that they ALL are, but I think a huge majority of schools are taking today off.

The question is, are they taking today off to vote?  If they are taking today off just to vote, why are they doing this?  I mean, don’t the rest of us have to work during the day and squeeze in voting around our busy schedule?  And what about the burden this puts on parents who’s children aren’t in school?  How understanding are all those businesses going to be to allow their parent employees the day off to allow the local schools to send the teachers out to vote?

Voting is extremely important, but the polls are open pretty early and stay open pretty late.  My specific voting poll is open from 7am – 8pm.  So no matter when I decide to go vote, I’ll be able to.  I don’t see why teachers can’t do the same thing.

What do you think?  Do you think the teachers are taking today off to vote or for actual “Staff Development”?

He’s a Character for sure! While I’m working on my business, taking phone calls, the boys are generally downstairs doing their school work. Ineveitablly, Jackson is still doing his schoolwork long past the time I officially get “off work”. Mostly because he can’t stop thinking about everything else but school. He plays with the cat, he wanders around the house talking to who ever is or isn’t there. Literally he will spend all day on one math problem. Read the rest of this entry »