Families Are Better Even Than Chocolate

Thanks family!! I had such a fun time tonight. You are all so fun and beautiful and helpful and wonderful! I am a lucky mama and grandmama. You are all so enthusiastic about my Beach Breeze adventures that it gives me hope and courage. Thank you Jennis, for my pretty background. I am so not the zebra print kind of girl. :) muuuaaaahhhh; until we meet again.

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I don't know if I can tell this and make it funny, but I'm going to try. This morning at assembly Mrs. McLaren was going over the usual pieces of business before we say the flag salute and sing a patriotic song. (Which was God Bless America in sign language. If you have never seen 500+ kids 'sing' this in sign language you have missed a rare, inspiring, and beautiful treat. Thank you LeighAnn.) As part of the daily announcements Mrs. McLaren has a quote that she repeats for a week, something like, "If at first you don't succeed..." These are always prefaced with, "Don't forget what my Grandma always says...". Being Friday, the kids have all heard the quote all week, and can usually parrot it back. At the appropriate time she asked the kids in general, "And what does my grandma always say?" and a little bitty kindergartener shouted, "DONUTS!!!!" There was a big pause and a lot of head scratching, and I'm thinking, "Maybe her grandma has a tradition of buying donuts when they get together?" And when Mrs. McLaren started laughing, and we remember the quote, which was "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you" we all got a big belly laugh out of it. Apparently "unto" is an unfamiliar word and doesn't translate well over the loudspeaker into a 5 year olds ear. She heard, "Donuts for others as you would have donuts to you!" It makes me laugh all over again just to read it. I don't know, maybe you had to be there, maybe I'm just over-tired, but I thought it was hysterical.