If you have kids, this will CRACK you up!!

This came home in the info packet I received at Emma's Back to School Night...

Homework Guidelines

or

A Child's View of the Job

Here is a student explanation of our homework policy.

Students should not spend more than 90 minutes per night on homework. The time should be budgeted in the following manner:

• 15 minutes looking for the assignment
• 11 minutes calling a friend for the assignment
• 23 minutes explaining to parents why the teacher is mean and just doesn't like kids
• 8 minutes in the bathroom
• 10 minutes getting a snack
• 7 minutes checking the tv listings
• 6 minutes telling parents that the teacher never explained the homework
• 10 minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting for Mom to do the assignment
• It is not necessary to have the student's name on the assignment.

Long Term Assignments:

These are given the night before they are due. This explains the name "long term".

• It is a long-term commitment to time that begins at 9:30pm and ends at 11:50pm.
• It is important that the whole family is involved in the project. It is imperative that at least one family member race to Wal-Mart for poster board and that one family end up in tears. (This does not have to be the student.)
• One parents needs to stay up and complete the project. The other parent needs to call the school and leave a message that the student is out sick.
• It is not necessary to have the student's name on this assignment either.

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Does the person who wrote this live in my house???????

Happy Blog Follower Day!

Yesterday was apparently "Good Neighbor Day" or some such idiosyncratic day of celebration.

So I decided to make today "Blog Follower Day" to let you know how much I appreciate you coming along with my on my parenting/reading/volunteering/writing/moving adventures. Whether you're an actual follower or not (*hint hint*) doesn't really matter. What matters is that you click onto Delicious as Pie every day or two to see what's going down in the D___ house.

I would love to send you each a pretty, bright bouquet. But, well... that's just not gonna happen.

Instead, here are some flowers that I shot this morning. They are so perfectly beautiful that I couldn't resist preserving their early morning innocence.

    Happy Blog Follower Day!

Stickies

Thank the good Lord for Sticky Notes!

'Cause this is what happens when you wake up in the middle of the night, subconsciously having figured out the ending to your newest chapter...

FREE! FREE! FREE! I adore free!

I finally got my act (and my list) (and my coupons) together and headed out to Super Coupon!!

I am so excited to tell you everything I purchased for next to NOTHING!

My grand total, including tax on all items, came to $20.67!

Here are the sundries that overflowed my many reusable bags...



Staples
2 reams of paper: 50 cents/each
1 8-pk of Bic pens: 1 cent
2 4 oz. bottles of glue: 1 cent/each
1 box HP 4x6 photo paper: $1

 

CVS
King-sized Three Musketeers: 24 cents
Philips earbuds: FREE!!

Walgreen's
8 lbs. Domino sugar: $2.38
Blistex: FREE!!
Walgreen's 8 ct. tampons: FREE!
Tampax 18 ct.: 99 cents
Colgate Advanced: 25 cents
(Also received a Catalina coupon for another free box of tampons (up to $5) and a mail-in coupon for a free string backpack filled with a jump rope, water bottle and something else I can't identify from the picture. LOL)

Rite-Aid
2 30-ct Purex sheets: $2.98 each
12 oz. Pantene shampoo: $1
12 oz. Pantene conditioner: $1
Nivea lip balm: FREE!!



And lest you think this took most of the day, it didn't. I spent an hour this morning listing exactly what and how much I needed and assembling coupons. I clipped them all by store, so I was completely prepared.

I don't think I spent longer than 10 minutes in any of the stores, so it was totally worth my time.

Hahaha! This is a different way to have communion!

Juice boxes for the religious! (LOL) Complete with a snack!

No, seriously, these are individual and disposable little cups of wine about the same size as a coffee creamer. But before you get to the wine, you peel off the first layer of the top to get to the itty-bitty, little wafer. Then you pull the rest of the tab off and drink the wine.

I've never seen anything like it before and had a hard time not giggling in church this morning when the basket was passed to me. They're so cute!

And so random. I guess it's a good idea in some respects, but I didn't particularly care for the communion method at this church. (We're church shopping, by the way.) Communion wasn't presented to each parishioner by the pastor, but sent around the room via a basket. Kinda reminded me of Offering.

I missed our church back in Vancouver and our pastors there that we loved. I missed seeing our friends and the feeling that we belonged. 

I know we'll find that again, but still...