Dynamite Comes in Small Packages

I started writing a post after the weekend, I really did. Then I started designing a runner for Sidney's third grade class, incorporating each students footprint, and the Bible verse, "let the little children come to me." Sniffle, sniffle. It's going to be adorable, and hopefully it will raise money for this years Spring Fling. Yes, that's actually what it's called. It's a fund raiser for the school.

Then I began working on VBS. That's like taking the hours and watching them clip by like minutes. While I was working on VBS, Sidney told Tom and I a girl was picking on her for being small. Tom taught her to say, "dynamite comes in small packages."

And before the mayhem started, last Friday night and Saturday, both kids got the chance to spend some quality time with Tom’s parents. I don’t think Eli removed the 3D glasses from his face all day on Sunday. Was he supposed to keep those. What happens with Grandpa.... Tom’s dad asked if he might like to go and see the Muppets, then told him he was kidding and actually going to the Star Wars 3D move. I can’t imagine the conversation Grandpa Steve heard on the way there and back. It’s like a foreign language.

After scooping up the kids Saturday, we were off to my parents house. Grandpa Bob constructed new book shelves for Sidney. Good thing she's happy with them going in our living room for awhile, because they match my hutch. Photos to come. 

And now, I'm back off to finish laundry, bake for the neighbors. Oh yeah, I already did that, but Eli ate the cookies when I wasn't looking. I think we need to have a conversation about self control. He's been having some rough days at school. He took care of the school bully, but he learned the hard way. It's not so much the food, it's the sneaking around that drives me nuts! And the fact that I fully expect to see him doubled over with a sugar cramp.


OK, enough rambling, time to see if an antacid inside a film can with the lid closed and 2 teaspoons of water really comes apart and shoots like a rocket (VBS science activity).