Like when I'm doing funny voices to amuse my children,
my sense of humor matches that of a five year old [and makes me wonder who is laughing more,
they convince unathletic me to push them on a tire swing [Putting all of my "practice makes perfect" pep talks in the classroom into action -- they call that modeling!],
doing a terrible job trying to be coordinated enough to move a puppet's mouth and arms at the same time while keeping Jelly's voice the same [ i.e. different from my regular Miss M voice]
I'm popping up and down from the lunch table to remind them to sit and eat.
And that's just some of what happens at school.
At home I still look silly sometimes.
Like when I'm washing a stuffed hippo in my sink [and taking pictures of it for my kids],
drawing things to use during lessons,
surrounded by mountains kindergarten drawings and papers to look over,
fighting bedtime at the end of the night by getting one last drink of water...three times.
And then there was tonight.
Walking around the neighborhood with a plastic baggie for leaves, pine needles, pods, acorns, pine cones -- all of different shapes, sizes, and colors [ our favorite ways to sort]...because a grown woman [ who resembles a teenager] never looks strange doing that, right?
And there's the muffin tins.
True story: most muffin tins yield muffins. But did you also know they can yield crayons? More on that tomorrow. I have to make more crayons and will document the process. It's definitely something I'd suggest trying at home. Unless, of course, you're under the age of 10 and operating the oven alone. In that case it's a no-go.
~"To teach is to learn twice." [-Joseph Joubert]~
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