{"id":629,"date":"2011-08-29T04:46:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2011-08-29T04:49:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T11:49:36","slug":"the-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog2.queenoframbles.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"The Big Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elsa decided to take a little nap at 7 pm last night, which meant she didn&#8217;t go to real bed until almost midnight.  Dumb, dumb parents.  Why did we let her do that?  Except, what are you supposed to do when she walks over, puts a boppy and a blanket on your lap and assumes the sleep position?  And screams hysterically if you don&#8217;t let her sleep?  <\/p>\n<p>Remember all the fun times of Erik screaming hysterically when we tried to force him to sleep?  Such different children.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up at 6 this morning and finally got out of bed at 6:30.  I&#8217;m just too excited and nervous about the first day of kindergarten!  Erik is so excited that he&#8217;s buzzing.  Literally.  Buzzing noises won&#8217;t stop coming out of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>He was all dressed and ready to go, but I had to make him do a costume change.  What do you want your kid to wear the first day of school?  Something nice, right?  He picked out his karate t-shirt, which is about 4 sizes too big.  I don&#8217;t know how I managed to finesse him into a shirt with buttons, but with a lot of cajoling it worked.  It will be the first and only day the child wears my idea of a nice shirt to school.  Gotta give a mama something on the first day, right?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been ready to go to the bus for at least 20 minutes and we have another 40  minutes before the bus arrives.  I suppose it won&#8217;t always be this easy, but it&#8217;s nice to get off to a slow start.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully they didn&#8217;t cancel school.  There are about 8 schools in the district without power, but they just cancelled those specific schools instead of shutting down the whole district.  I think Erik and I both would have gone insane if he couldn&#8217;t go to school today.  I love the boy with everything I&#8217;ve got, but he can be so very <i>intense<\/i>.  I think we&#8217;ve both been on each others last nerves the last week or so.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ramblequeen\/6092734680\/\" title=\"Double yolker by Ramble Queen, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6196\/6092734680_ccb85174c5.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Double yolker\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to Erik, the hurricane didn&#8217;t to any damage to our place because of his double yolker.  His teacher is going to be so confused if he starts trying to explain this to her.  We made &#8220;hurricane cookies&#8221; because he was really sad about not being invited to a hurricane party next door.  He cracked open the first egg and two yolks fell out.  I told him he was lucky because double yolkers are really rare.  He is now convinced his double yolker luck is what single handedly kept the hurricane from killing us all.<\/p>\n<p>I told him double yolkers are from old hens, but he didn&#8217;t really get that part.  He keeps saying that he is lucky because of his old pigeon double yolker.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose kindergarten teachers must be confused all the time.  They must learn to just nod and smile.<\/p>\n<p>What else?  I am very anxious to get my sewing machine back.  The repairman said the bobbin case was severely damaged and he had to order a new one so it will take a couple of weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>Erik was annoying me by digging around in my chair yesterday.  I just wanted to sit down, but he was convinced I was hiding something from him in the chair.  Why?  WHY?  I have no freakin&#8217; clue.  <\/p>\n<p>Guess what he found!  A camera that&#8217;s been missing for several months!  It had several pictures on it, but now I remember why I wasn&#8217;t sad when this camera went rogue.  Nary a good picture on the whole thing.  I really love my new camera (Sony Cybershot).  If only the kids would keep their stinkin&#8217; little greasy fingers off the lens.<\/p>\n<p>Guess I better go double check everything.  I have butterflies in my stomach!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elsa decided to take a little nap at 7 pm last night, which meant she didn&#8217;t go to real bed until almost midnight. Dumb, dumb parents. Why did we let her do that? 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