My oldest is away at a sleepover toight, so the rest of us are pajama'ed up and waching the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics. It has been a strange day. I helped with RIF this morning and watched an adult get grumped at by a boy for not having the right colored fairy book. This is not the first time he has gotten into a verbal confrontation about fairy books. I am not going to lie...I find it entertaining. I love looking at all of the books and seeing what my two bring home. I must question Scholastic's reasoning on some of their book bundles. I opened up one to spread out on tables for the kids to look through. There was a bundle with some Penderwicks books and Time Warp Trio and maybe some Judy Blume. Thrown in there for good measure was an anthology of Emily Dickinson poetry called "I'm Nobody, Who are you?". I had to memorize that poem in middle school. Nothing says "Elementary Reading" like the light fare of Dickinson. I'm shocked nobody picked it for the second RIF distribution in a row.
The most exciting part of my day was that my friend Kaiti gave us a face time call from Guatemala. She left January 10th and we sure have missed her. Several of the little people in the orphanage where she is were very interested to see our strange faces on her phone. We got lots of "Hola's" and "Come on-come on's" from them. So cute! Technology is a wonderful thing!
The little girl has just finished flying through the air and the parade of nations has just started. Even though it was not my national anthem, I thought the rendition of the state anthem of Russia was absolutely gorgeous. Just beautiful. If Matt Lauer would shut his mouth, it would be wonderful. Night all.
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