Fabulous Friday/Week wrap-up
Dec. 23rd, 2011 02:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
take_the_goodThere are few places better to spend the week before Xmas than in an elementary school. It's basically been a 5-day blur of cookies, hot cocoa and various holiday themed shenanigans and sing-alongs.
We played reindeer games (heehee) in P.E. a few days ago. It's basically tag, in which one kid gets is Santa and the others are reindeer and Santa has to tag them all. Santa has to "Ho ho ho" loudly and reindeer have to make reindeer noises (which, by popular vote, ended up being something between a horse neigh and clown giggles). The problem is not that blind children can't play tag. The problem is that blind children like to cheat at tag by whispering their noise so that others don't know where they are. Which means we have to run alongside the cheaters shouting "NEEEEIIIIGH HEHEHEHEHHH" at the top of our lungs to make it a fair game. So maybe it was good that we were all full of sugar.
Went to the school library and found a new Sharon Creech book in Braille to read over the holiday break. I am ridiculously excited about this, I can't even explain.
In less joyous news, my parents got stuck in El Paso due to icy roads closing the interstate. They're going to try again tomorrow, when it should hopefully be warmer and safer. Also, Sierra is getting a cough, but nothing some cough drops aren't handling. Just need to keep an eye on it and at least she can stay indoors for a while.
I will hopefully be making all sorts of fabulous yummy things in the next few days. Pictures whenever I actually start figuring out how to empty my new camera :P
EDIT: I am bouncing back and forth (and cross-posting) between DreamWidth and LJ for now so I can keep up with everyone, so it doesn't affect much, but if anyone wants to add me on DW my name is the same there.
We played reindeer games (heehee) in P.E. a few days ago. It's basically tag, in which one kid gets is Santa and the others are reindeer and Santa has to tag them all. Santa has to "Ho ho ho" loudly and reindeer have to make reindeer noises (which, by popular vote, ended up being something between a horse neigh and clown giggles). The problem is not that blind children can't play tag. The problem is that blind children like to cheat at tag by whispering their noise so that others don't know where they are. Which means we have to run alongside the cheaters shouting "NEEEEIIIIGH HEHEHEHEHHH" at the top of our lungs to make it a fair game. So maybe it was good that we were all full of sugar.
Went to the school library and found a new Sharon Creech book in Braille to read over the holiday break. I am ridiculously excited about this, I can't even explain.
In less joyous news, my parents got stuck in El Paso due to icy roads closing the interstate. They're going to try again tomorrow, when it should hopefully be warmer and safer. Also, Sierra is getting a cough, but nothing some cough drops aren't handling. Just need to keep an eye on it and at least she can stay indoors for a while.
I will hopefully be making all sorts of fabulous yummy things in the next few days. Pictures whenever I actually start figuring out how to empty my new camera :P
EDIT: I am bouncing back and forth (and cross-posting) between DreamWidth and LJ for now so I can keep up with everyone, so it doesn't affect much, but if anyone wants to add me on DW my name is the same there.
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Date: 2011-12-23 10:01 pm (UTC)Which Sharon Creech book? If it's a newer one I probably haven't read it myself but I read a couple of hers years ago and loved them.
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