Can you say Sensible Auntie and O Quaker Auntie duking it out?
Can you say O Quaker Auntie sitting in Meeting for worship, mentally scrawling on an imaginary chalkboard "I will not make fun of the school mascot. I will not make fun of the school mascot... I will be DARNED grateful Little Sister seems to have gotten over major grumbles about the mere idea of Irrepressible Nephew attending what seems to RantWoman a REALLY GOOD high school choice..I will not make fun of the school mascot. I will not make fun of the school mascot. "
Can you say O Quaker Auntie sitting in Meeting for worship, mentally scrawling on an imaginary chalkboard "I will not make fun of the school mascot. I will not make fun of the school mascot... I will be DARNED grateful Little Sister seems to have gotten over major grumbles about the mere idea of Irrepressible Nephew attending what seems to RantWoman a REALLY GOOD high school choice..I will not make fun of the school mascot. I will not make fun of the school mascot. "
News flash: Irrepressible Nephew apparently wants to play high school football!
RantWoman thinks welllll, if having to keep grades up and show up regularly to practice gives him
structure and community, can we live with the risk of brain injury?
It seems like only last week, RantWoman it was JUNE, when then entire
Rant entourage was sitting through middle school passage, speech by principal,
commemorative video, parade of students, posing combinations of family members
and a buddy for pictures, small piece of data RantWoman just had to FILE.
Graduation pix
Principal talked about moving from NC where anti-bullying legislation did nt make itthrough the legislature to Seattle where one of the first activities people want ed to do was a day of awreness about LGBT students.
Passage ceremony featured commemorative video summoned painful-to-watch
zigzags before Irrepressible Nephew landed at his school in 4th
grade: A really good place for kindergarten, a very attitudinal first grade
teacher who did not like her placement for her first job out of college, a
mental health professional who thought (Arrrrggggh!) that Little Sister could
possibly add homeschooling to her own grueling list of medical appointments,
RantMom’s arrival and more than one strand of intense conversations before
Little Sister found really nice school with good anti-bullying program and a
couple teachers who really clicked with Nephew, wait list for the school where
Nephew finished middle school and then Fourth Grade start.
Nephew’s classmates definitely know about the menagerie at home and
cheered loudly when it was Nephew’s turn to parade across stage. RantWoman was
touched by the social vibe. And in the realm of things falling or not falling
through cracks, wellllll, there are matters to hold in the Light.
Understand, RantMom and Rant Dad were Eat what’s put in front of you
parents. This did NOT include arguing about vegetables. So RantWoman can see
some basis for adult rebellion. But RantWoman thinks as an adult Little sister
started having teeth prblems early and came to shun any form of vegetable that
was not WELL diced AND well-cooked. Thus, ducks were well aligned:
Irrepressible Nephew expected the teriyaki place to serve him yakisoba noodles
and meat, NO vegetables.
He trained both his mother and his Grandmother that no vegetable could be consumed if Irrepressible Nephew could recognize it in the food. And miraculously the gym teachers or SOMEONE ignited within Nephew interest in all sorts of actual, intact, recognizable vegetables. This miracle is ALMOST enough to help RantWoman over the hump about endorsing the football idea. Almost.
He trained both his mother and his Grandmother that no vegetable could be consumed if Irrepressible Nephew could recognize it in the food. And miraculously the gym teachers or SOMEONE ignited within Nephew interest in all sorts of actual, intact, recognizable vegetables. This miracle is ALMOST enough to help RantWoman over the hump about endorsing the football idea. Almost.
http://www.garfieldhsfootball.com/join-the-team/
And the players in the photos all have the same look of congenial
innocence that Irrepressible Nephew wears of late.
Yes, RantWoman for one would prefer he make it at least to his 18th
birthday without flirting with brain injury. But RantWoman appears not to have
any choice in the matter. Soooo, in the interest of trying out the idea
oneself, a few moments from an internet search.
The mascot in question:
Can you say O Quaker Auntie sitting in Meeting for worship, mentally scrawling on an imaginary chalkboard "I will not make fun of the school mascot. I will not make fun of the school mascot... I will be DARNED grateful Little Sister seems to have gotten over major grumbles about the mere idea of Irrepressible Nephew attending what seems to RantWoman a REALLY GOOD high school choice..I will not make fun of the school mascot. I will not make fun of the school mascot. "
And one more item, stored here because it is contemporaneous
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