Today was the Thanksgiving lunch celebration at my son's elementary school. Alas, it will be the last year my children willingly invite me to eat with them at school...in front of their friends. And I'm very grateful that my tween actually wanted me to be there with him today and for that I give thanks.
As a matter of fact I received quite an education while chatting with and watching all of the teachers, parents and students at lunch today. Although it's been a few years since I was an official student of the northern Virginia public school system I definitely learned a lot in just one short hour.
It makes me pause to wonder why, when my husband and I ask every single day, "What did you learn at school today?", the children draw a blank face and shrug. They obviously aren't paying enough attention.
Here's what I learned at school today:
1. Even big 5th graders love having mom and dad show up for lunch on important days.
2. Sadly, the kids who need to see mom or dad show up the most ate without them today.
3. If you wear high heeled boots to school everyone compliments you on how much weight you've lost. (Hint to hubby: you'll have to bury me in these boots, 'cause they're never coming off!)
4. What I've suspected all along was confirmed today: my son's insta-tears are, in fact, fake. I spotted him giving fake crying lessons to his buddies today in an effort to get all the mothers to sign their kids out of school and take them home after lunch.
5. Crying 10-year old boys who wish to come home are really attempting to dodge their 6th period science test.
6. Even plastic knives would rather break in two than touch compressed turkey slabs.
7. Broken shards of plastic knives can be perceived as a threat to national security by strict cafeteria monitors.
8. Moms who haven't seen each other in a while are louder than 150 4th and 5th graders sitting in a cafeteria.
9. On a busy day the school parking lot looks like a poster for an SUV/monster truck mud derby.
10. Even if your son's vice principal knows that you're crazy enough to name your truck Penelope-the-Purple-People-Eater, he's still willing to accept a ride on a rainy day.
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