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It's Coming Around Again

That Carly Simon song was in my head this morning. Just the one line.

Because here we are for round I'm-not-sure-what since the year started: the family cold, passed from one person to another like some sort of sorry game that we just can't stop playing. It kept me from sleeping last night. So today is going to be a really really chill day.

Ahh-Choo!

Curse the PTA! {oh, I jest...}

This week at our school is literacy week. Literacy apparently means cookies, donuts, and some other snacks. Silly me. I thought it had to do with reading and the like.

Amid the treats, literacy also means wearing hats to school; something I can deal with. It means wearing green on Tuesday; something I can also deal with after searching through the laundry pile.

Literacy means dressing up like your favorite character in a book. Which we have already done once this school year. The last time didn't include Halloween, though it was around the same time. And right at this very moment my daughter is downstairs crying because she does not know who to dress up as, and it is very Very traumatic. It's something that annoys me to no end.

I applaud the idea of promoting reading. I am all for it. I just hate the dress-up part.

And don't even get me started on the part that says you must include sugar into every activity you do otherwise the world will fall apart. Our 'no sugar' month has made me realize just how much junk other people give my kids. I am not too happy about it.

So there you go. Signing off ~ Me, the Humbug of school activities! Ta ta!

(P.S. I imagine some may feel inclined to defend the PTA, or even suggest I join it. The PTA does a good job. I applaud those involved for being so. But if I joined the PTA my idea would be to suspend half of the activities because I find them superfluous. That's all.)