The last week of school killed me, on the work-life balance front. We had the talent shows–a second, extracurricular, and ridiculously long one followed the school one. We had family night at the Y, field day, the zoo, the last day picnic, the first day of tennis lessons, umpteen thank-you notes and gifts to prepare, and on and on. Both last Sunday and this past Friday, I fell asleep in Owen’s room while I was putting him to bed and never got back up. Feeling all hungover from that Sunday night episode didn’t really help get my week off to a good start (although I guess repeating the 8:30 p.m. bedtime on Friday was an appropriate way to end the week).
It’s a good thing I have 15 more months to work up to having two kids in school simultaneously.
It’s also good that among the huge pile of papers Jo brought home from school was a mad-libs assignment called … wait for it … “The Talent Show.” And demonstrating that a little knowledge (of parts of speech) is a dangerous thing, here’s what she wrote (underscores are her fill-in-the-blanks).
Tonight was our school talent show, and the theme for the event was toylets, and the whole gym was decorated with knives. It looked dertie! The first contestant was Sarah. Her talent was juggling. She juggled 10000 trees without dropping a single one!
Next, Sam came on stage. He played an instrument that looked like a cross between a dineasor and a elafent. As he playd, everyone began to berp and toot.
… [edited to spare you some more sentences about toylets and berps]
The lucky winner was given a very dirty trophy. After the show, everyone gathered in the cafeteria to eat some green fat worms.
Summer vacation ahoy!
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So who is Sam?
that’s so funny! i love the creative spelling.
First the toylet interview, and now show biz themes! I sense much interesting plumbing in the future.
It’s not a Mad-Libs if it doesn’t have at least one poop and one burp in it.