When a little family stays up late on a school night, eating homemade ice cream and frolicking on the grass catching fireflies they pay the price the next day.
Particularly when one cute teenage daughter waits until after the fun to say she needs a poster board: tomorrow. Then Dad and daughter take off trying to beat the stores that close earlier than she wants while mom tucks other children into bed and cleans the kitchen. And when they get back she is super upset because she doesn't want to ride the bus to school the next day, particularly when she will be holding a poster board. SO, she cries and complains until way past midnight in a very taxing manner.
Finally everyone goes to sleep but soon mom wakes back up and frets for a couple of hours. She doesn't want her daughter to be sad, and she always wants to be there for the children and to help them. But in this case she is going to a field trip early the next morning. Like we had to leave at 6:15.
Finally finally mom sleeps for a few hours until 5 when she has to walk the dogs, then shower, then wake the now grouchy 9 year old who was "forced to stay up late having fun".
And the poor teenaged one? She rides the bus.
And the mom? She is very very tired and very hot at a long, all day, outside, field trip.
The results are tired and cranky parents and children.
We went to BioBlast. They did some great things. They mucked the marsh and kayaked and observed nature and "engineered" sandcastles. It was pretty fun (and hot and tiring)
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| beach geometry, volume and surface area, collecting things lone boy sitting with a gaggle of girls and right next to a little red haired girl (just saying) paddleing |
Oh, I remember those days!!!!
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