Friday Fragments...

We have a mystery this week... Liam is really resisting getting on the school bus and because of his Autism we can't figure out why... that's the most frustrating thing about this disability... the guesswork and detective work required to help him be happy and healthy... I phoned his teacher hoping for some insight, but she says he's been happy once he gets to school...

Please keep my sanity and Wayne's in your thoughts today as we host a sleepover for several of Robyn's friends to mark the occasion of her 14th birthday... I anticipate lots of giggles, talking and off-key singing... and that's just us getting ready for the party ;-D

Erik is learning to jump... it's a funny process that I'd forgotten about when Liam learned... but oh so cute to watch as he figures out the rhythm of jumping on the bed... I see a trip to Monkey Joes (home of several bouncy castles) in our future...  of course he's also learning to jump into puddles...

Wayne's sabbatical is filling up fast... I am still amazed by the fact that he truly thought he'd be getting a 5 month break... if you know my husband at all, you'll know that he can't resist a challenge or say no to an opportunity that presents itself... he'll be busy, just not in the classroom... and hopefully enjoy every minute of it...

As for me, I'm putting together my last book fair for Haut Gap... I think I'm going out with a bang.. the theme is Hawaiian Luau and I've been stalking the Oriental Trading Company website trying to decide how much fabulous decor I can budget for ....

In other fragments, I have a pet peeve with the grade 8 graduation committee at Robyn's school this year... they've decided that the girls should wear pastel colors ... have they looked at this year's fashion options??? COLOR is in!  None of the major stores are even showing pastel options online... I did find two really cute white dresses... white is close to pastel right?

I'm still looking for 3 or 4 more volunteers to write a guest post in May or June about 3-5 things to do in your area when travelling (or staycationing) with kids... if you're interested please let me know... and if you want to highlight a city other than the one  you live in, that's fine too!

In the news this week (and still rolling around in my fragmented mind):

Congratulations to the team at the North Charleston Boeing plant - the first plane made in SC rolls off the line today - http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120427/PC16/120429299/1005.  One of my good friend's hubby's fingerprints are all over the plane so I wish it long service...

And yet another example of some people having way too much time and way too little sense... Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss is now 'too political' for British Columbia classrooms... I hope they don't read the Butter Battle Book... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/dr-seusss-yertle-the-turtle-deemed-too-political-for-bc-classroom/article2413233/


Well, there's more rattling around in my brain, but it's so fragmented it doesn't make any sense... so I'll turn you lovely readers over to the much more capably fragmented hands of Mrs. 4444 and the other fraggers:


P.S. Every time I've written the word frag(ment) today my brain starts singing... "Down at Fraggle Rock..." so I guess I should pull up the Youtube clip so you can be as strange as me...