It's Green!

Yesterday, I had a hard time sleeping and as I was driving to school, the roads were slick and the snow was dry, powdery, and teeny, tiny shards of snow at 6:59am. As I pulled into the parking lot, I realized that my car still had its full-sized spare-tire on it (I thought John had switched it out when he'd registered the car). So, after school, Max and I went over to Discount Tire to had them rotate the tires.

Imagine my surprise when he told me that the tire I wanted them to fix had been purchased in 2003! WOW! That's an OLD tire! So, we bought a new one... but there was another bald tire that had been bought in 2004, so we bought a set. Talk about bargain me. I like to get the most out of a set of tires. Not only that, but I got MILEAGE back on them! I hadn't driven all the miles on them I'd been alloted. Wow. So, while Max and I waited (and I worried that there were 3 Discount Tire employees and 2 of us -- and I hoped they wouldn't go out of business), they rotated our tires, and Max and I touched the "wheels." They were pokey. Max was astounded and wandered around pretending/posing to be surprised.

Now, you should know, Max only "knows" one color. In Max's world, everything is green. It's not because he knows the color green. He has no idea what color green is. He loves to say the word green. Everything is green. Everything we looked at was green. For a half an hour, we wandered around, and we discussed tires. We discussed the BLACK tires. We discussed that they smelled of RUB-ber. BLACK. Rubber. What color are tiress, Max? Green? What do tires smell like, Max? Green. SIGH.

By the time we got home, I had given up. When his dad asked him what we had done, he said, "We looked a WHEELS.
I thought, "Hey! We did!"
His dad asked him, "How was it?"
He said, "They were BLACK."
I thought, "Yeah! They WERE!"
His dad said, "Wow! That's great!"
I said, "What did they smell like?"
Max said, "Rubber!"
I said, "What do you want to do next?"
He said, "Watch Chewbacca!"
I said, "OK! What color is he?"
He said, "Green."

Adventures at Pack Meeting

Tonight's Adventures in Motherhood took place at Pack Meeting, which was full of adventure because Jack earned his last red bead (and belt loops and his Bear patch!) He also made a fantastic dinosaur... which got smashed by another boy during a hugely exciting cheer.

So... we got a before the cheer picture as he was getting his awards:

And an after the event photo in bits and pieces...
And then some photos so you can get the true flavor of the event

Silly Xandri.
Asa walking like a penguin

Max complaining that we were leaving without his dad (who still was at scouts).

Xandri's Birthday

Xandri will turn seven on Saturday. It seems virtually impossible to believe that she'll be seven...  As Jean Val-Jean's song says, "How soon they fly/on and on. And I am old!" And so is she.

Her birthday invitations are so very chic (and very adult looking). Purpley-blue (and they sort of have X's on them in the foil--if you squint). She's having a party with seven friends, where they come and watch a movie, make a bracelet, have cake, and then go home. It will be like her friend Maddy's Christmas party (but they made gingerbread houses).

I'm having trouble sleeping tonight. My students are preparing for the biggest state test of the year which happens next week. It's a high stakes test because if they don't pass it, they get a diploma that says they are incompetent. We have another test at the end of the year that also measures annual yearly progress, too. While they are both bubble tests, only this one next week is required for graduation. They've been preparing for it for 7 years. They do get five chances to pass it (and it is only on an eighth grade competency level).

Well, it's almost time to go to school. It snowed last night. The roads are covered, "These woods are lovely dark and deep/and I have promises to keep/and miles to go before I sleep" So I must be off. It's Tuesday, so I'll be having adventures in mothering tonight while John is off to scouts. More on that later. :o)