Outside

Word on the street says there might be a blizzard here Friday.  We're supposed to get less than a half an inch, but it's going to be windy... and I still don't have any plastic over my porch screens! Oh well, I suppose I'll survive.  It's not supposed to get below freezing Friday until about 4:00, so it might come as rain.  The kids were all like, "Wait! Blizzard? No school Friday???"

We have our road back! Actually, last Friday they took down the detour and now we are back to minimal traffic outside school.  Since the weather was good today, we had chapel at church and walked there and back.

Once chapel was over, we had music practice (we're singing on Sunday) and then we packed Operation Christmas Child boxes.  We had enough stuff to pack 63 boxes!  Each kid got to pack at least one.  Oh we put some good presents in there!  I wish I could be there to see the recipients' faces when they open the boxes.  All 63 boxes ended up in the back of Miss S's van; she'll drop them off in New Ulm at the pickup site before Friday.

Since this was probably the last nice day of the year, we went outside for recess.  They've been playing GaGa Ball and the competition is fierce.  I usually have to referee or there's lots of shouting about "I'm not out! It didn't touch me!"  One 8th grade girl was talking or something, she had her mouth wide open, and the ball bounced in her face.  She got a huge mouthful of rubber kickball!  If you've ever been around kickballs, you know the rubber smells gross.  If you touch it with your hands, your hands smell gross afterwards.  And if you are unfortunate enough to forget that fact and accidentally lick your hand, you forever regret that awful taste in your mouth.  This poor girl.  Her entire tongue licked that ball.  It bounced away as if nothing had happened.  But moments later (if you looked closely), you could see a little brown oval on the ball where her 'licking' picked up dirt from the floor of the GaGa pit.  Eww. Disgusting.