i have some milk for you

September 24: The late pick up kids were playing pretend grocery. Celeste bought an assortment of plastic foods, which Valerye rung up at the fake cash register. Valerye handed Celeste her change in pretend coins. Celeste stared at a phony penny intensely. “Hello, Mr. Lincoln,” she said to the coin. “I haven’t seen you since you were assassinated.”

September 25: Everyone’s cellphones beeped to alert us to Bill Cosby’s sentence as a convicted sex offender. I saw a book on our shelf that was written by Bill Cosby and titled “My Big Lie”, a book about how lying is always bad. Jen took it fro me to snapchat the irony.

September 26: Today, a student in the kinder class whose name I don’t know approached me in the playground. “Ms. Heather, I have some milk for you,” he said. Then he proceeded to pull two cartons of milk out of his pants pocket. How he managed to fit those in there is a mystery.

September 27: Ana has been receiving and typing up the forms turned in for our after school program. Today, she found one where the parents got confused at the race question. They checked “other” and wrote in “purple”.

September 28: Every single child complained at the slime party.
“It’s too hard. Look,” they said. Then they threw their ball of slime onto the cafeteria table and watched it bounce.
“If you don’t like it, I’ll take it,” I said.
Every time, they pulled their slime back protectively. “No,” they said. “I’ll keep it.”

September 29: Our new neighbor keeps a chair in her bay window. It’s where she likes to read. Today, she let us know that Addie spends all day sitting in our window vigilantly watching her read and barking every time she moves.

September 30: Cheddar can be a verb. It is a part of the cheese making process where you cut up cheese curds while they are still warm and fermenting. You salt the sections and stack them like Jenga pieces over and over again until everything is mixed up.




much love,
hedgie