Greetings and thank you for wading through that title.
Let me summarize the last month by assaulting your eyeballs:
You’re welcome. I’m certain I am the only one who has used “March Madness” in a non-basketball-related way.
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As the school year whips by us like homework excuses in a tornado, we find ourselves on the cusp of that most cherished of all educational adventuring: the field trip, where learning and relentless searches for bathrooms are disguised as off-site fun.
You, dear parents, have been chosen (read: volunteered, or at least volun-told) to chaperone.
This isn’t a drill. Nor is it a walk in the park—even if your field trip is actually to a park. This is a tactical obstacle course where you and they will run, cry, fall, climb, carry, and “Why did I volunteer for this?” your way through the day.
Here’s a briefing, because sharing is part of the healing:
(more…)Last weekend I took my 11-year-old daughter clothes shopping, hoping we’d get a jump on back-to-school prep. (Back-to-school season now starts somewhere in June, if everything I see is any indication.) Our mission took us through multiple stores, like hapless Goldilockses in search of the elusive Just Right.
It was no walk in the park.
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Jackie Pick 