I told the Beast that if I even THINK about taking Chewlee for the school fund-raiser at Chik-Fil-A next year to shoot me. He said even if I didn't go, he would be happy to shoot me. Ha! Ha! It's wall-to-wall kids and their reluctant parents. The kids run around in stocking feet or barefoot because they are running in and out of the play area and don't want to keep putting their shoes on. I almost died of embarrassment because Chewlee didn't have socks that matched (she said Mommy just throws them in a drawer and she couldn't find two that matched) and one of the socks had a huge hole in it. She finally pulled them off and I threw the sock with a hole in the toe (a big one!) in the garbage.
No sense sending it home with her because it would just get washed and thrown into the bunch again. At least MY kids had their socks matched up for them. I wouldn't have DARED to just dump them in a pile. They, too, would have just grabbed two and not cared if they matched. They were kids after all. They were a bit older than Chewlee......no, a LOT older than Chewlee.....before that mattered to them. LOL!
I got a chance to talk to Chewlee's favorite teacher and found out that Chewlee always stops by, twice a day minimum, to just give her a hug and say Hi! She is very fond of Chewlee (especially now that she is another teacher's problem child...LOL). Chewlee was surprised that her old teacher knew the name of her daddy (Johnnycakes!). She told Chewlee that she knew her mother well so, of course, she would know the name of her daddy.
Me? I discovered that Chewlee had left her jacket at my house so I called the Princess to find out if she had another one at her house (since the mornings are so cold now) so that I wouldn't have to go back to my house to get it, drop Chewlee off at HER house and then come home again. It was getting dark and cold out and I really wanted to get us both home before full dark. I hate driving at night. Chewlee had a long sleeve shirt on so I knew she wouldn't be cold going home but I worried about in the morning. The Princess told me to just bring her home because, even if she couldn't find one of her jackets, she could always put sweaters on Chewlee over her long sleeve shirts she has. So, I drove Chewlee home.
On the way to her house, she started to tell me that tomorrow was going to be the coldest, cold day we ever had. I figured she wanted to go get her jacket so I told her what her mother said. She then told me that tomorrow she would need LOTS of jackets because of how cold it was going to be and that we might even have SNOW! That made me laugh and I told her that we were NOT getting snow tomorrow because I had already checked on what the weather would be like so she didn't have to worry about that. She told me that she was going to have to wear her boots even if there wasn't any snow because her boots kept her feet warm. She said that they sometimes made her feet TOO warm but she couldn't take them off at school. Teachers don't like that and Chewlee said it wasn't safe, either. I told her that I was glad she had learned that.
She started to tell me all the things that COULD happen if she didn't have her shoes/boots on....like slipping and falling, people stepping on her toes (and breaking them! LOL), getting nails or other sharp things in the bottom of her feet.....there was a long list she regaled me with. At one point, she stopped and said, *Grandma, did you hear me?* I told her I was listening and then repeated some of what she had told me so that she kept going on with her list and didn't repeat herself....much. I think she gave this a lot of thought.
When we got to her house, I debated walking her to the door but she told me she could do it herself. Then she said in a small voice....*Are you going to stay until I am in the house?* I told her of course I was going to. Then she went around back instead of to the front door and the auto-light came on. Knowing her mother sounded like she was napping, I called to make sure she let Chewlee in. Once she told me Chewlee was in the house, I relaxed and backed out of the driveway to head home. It was damn near full dark when I got home. Have you noticed how early that's happening nowadays? Bratfink told me, *Yeah, it's almost time to change the clocks.* I forgot about that but we will be gaining an hour soon. I meant to look up when that happens for this blog but I'll do that tomorrow.
Time to get this posted. Love you all. Stay warm and drive carefully. If you go out to *lift a few*, have one for me, won't you? Or two or three? ROFL....**Wink**
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