Daylight

I love the fact that it is suddenly light out, even during Monday evening childcare, and that we can take the kids outside to play.

Of course, somewhere within the checking in of twenty six children last night, we all forgot to pay attention to whose coat was whose – and the two year olds weren’t particularly helpful in the picking-out-which-one-was-theirs department. 

We thought that we had it more or less figured out, until one of the moms came in to pick up her kid…and we realized that the little boys were not wearing the right coats at all. Meh. They all stayed warm.

The bigger kids stayed warm by running in circles and pouncing on whichever teacher they were sent after next. Which meant that more than one teacher claimed, “I have a baby!” as protection against the swarm of K - 4th graders. And…it worked…every single time.

If all else fails, pick up a two-year-old.

And then, feed the children plenty of snack, because, guess what? It’s eight o’clock at night. They’ve been running in circles for two hours. And. They. Are. Hungry.

(Well, minus the one who puked about forty-five minutes later – about twenty minutes after he fell and bit his lip. He wasn’t so hungry. Poor kid had a rough night.)