Thursday, September 27, 2012

I write journal entries for animals. . .

I'm really going to try to keep the fragments short today, you know to achieve actual fragments rather than paragraphs that I just call fragments, but nobody hold their breath!

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The dog keeps going out in the backyard and carrying bricks with her when she comes back to the door.  We have no idea where she is getting these bricks!  Is she disassembling our house?

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Another dog mystery.  The dog seems to be getting a bit overweight.  I'm not sure if this is due to us allowing our 5 year old to feed her the breakfast meal and his ability to estimate two-thirds of a cup of dog food is lacking or if it's due to incidents like tonight when my husband said, "Did the dog get fed dinner?"  I didn't know so he said, "Okay, well, I'll just give her some more food."

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We've made it to Friday and have managed so far to not lose either one of the classroom mascots we are hosting for the week.  They are stuffed animals, I do realize my life would be much more chaotic if they were real animals!  Thankfully schools no longer send home the live classroom guinea pig or at least they don't send it to our house (perhaps the fragment above is explanation enough about why that would be a bad idea). 

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AND I've even remembered to take the camera along to document some of our adventures for the class journal.  My favorite has got to be the allergy shot photoshoot.  My 7 year old daughter was due for her once-a-month shot this week and perhaps I sunk to a new low using it as an activity for the bunny and the penguin, but hey it was part of our week!


The nurses totally thought I was nuts taking pictures of my daughter right after she'd gotten a shot!  I tried to explain to them that the stuffed animals were classroom mascots we were hosting for the week, but the more I explained the crazier it all sounded so finally we just bolted out of there!

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There's a new Ethiopian restaurant that just opened in our area, I'm thinking we have to take the bunny and the penguin to eat Ethiopian food while they are with us!

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You may hear some gleeful cheering come Monday morning when I get to send those furry little friends back to school all ready for their adventures AT SOMEONE ELSE's house!

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But not before I pull an all-nighter writing up the bunny journal (at least my 7 year old can do her own penguin journal!) with the stories of our week.  A friend I have who had a child in that same preschool class a few years ago and I were laughing so hard this week when I told her we had the bunny and she confessed to staying up until 3am finishing up her daughter's journal!  

No really, I'm not doing that.  That was my friend's FIRST child and now she has 3 and can't believe how nuts she was to stress so much about that bunny journal.  This is my FOURTH child.  There will be no scrapbook supplies used in the making of our journal entry, that much I can guarantee.

And we are the first journal entry of the year in the bunny book so I'm considering it my personal gift to all the other mothers who will host Benjamin Bunny after us.  I intend to set the bar really, really low!

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I feel certain that writing journal entries for stuffed animals was not in my mom job description! 

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Happy Friday!




5 comments:

  1. Stuffed mascots with journals that the moms write is hilarious! That teacher really has influence!

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  2. Ha! Love this post! And yes, I've written some stuffed mascot journal entries too!! And don't worry - our school animals' activities were just me taking pictures of us doing what we always do: grocery shopping, Target, dance class. I think the allergy shot outing was a great idea :)

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  3. We're visiting our son right now who just happens to have a Beagle. He doesn't bring back a brick every time we let him out, but he DOES make a beeline to the gate in the HOPES that it will be open so he can roam the neighborhood.

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  4. I am sure the dog pointed out that dinner was indeed missed.

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  5. Stuffed mascots, never heard of that before. Is it sort of like Flat Stanley? Our dog use to escape, we had to concrete the entire fence line to keep her in. Now she just looks at us like she has lost her will to live.

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