Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

[CycloneErik]

Good scholastic day.
Class I subbed for was on fire as we talked about slave malnutrition. Good times.

Had our reading troubles for Z come up again, but a good trouble.
Her preschool gave her a book. We got home and read it right away. Now she's reading it back (by the pictures), and it looks like she's basically memorized it.

We'll need new books again. Once she's memorized it, it becomes time to move on.
Someone send us our own library.

 

[Cybirdy]

Good scholastic day.
Class I subbed for was on fire as we talked about slave malnutrition. Good times.

Had our reading troubles for Z come up again, but a good trouble.
Her preschool gave her a book. We got home and read it right away. Now she's reading it back (by the pictures), and it looks like she's basically memorized it.

We'll need new books again. Once she's memorized it, it becomes time to move on.
Someone send us our own library.

If her preschool sends home book orders, they usually have some good bargains. Most times there are $1 books. Hit up garage sales. I had a jump start from working in a preschool setting before having kids, then have parents who gift books. We also check out like 30-40 items at a time from the library. But keep her reading!

 

[CycloneErik]

If her preschool sends home book orders, they usually have some good bargains. Most times there are $1 books. Hit up garage sales. I had a jump start from working in a preschool setting before having kids, then have parents who gift books. We also check out like 30-40 items at a time from the library. But keep her reading!

Yeah, we're going to clean up on the book order thing.
I think we'll make a weekly trip to the library on Wednesday since there isn't school. That's our coast day, and it would fit right in.

 

[cyrocksmypants]

There's a subreddit that is strictly dudes that want to rub one out together as they talk to each other about what they would do to female celebrities. I think this one has topped weirdest subreddits I've ever seen.

 

[carvers4math]

If her preschool sends home book orders, they usually have some good bargains. Most times there are $1 books. Hit up garage sales. I had a jump start from working in a preschool setting before having kids, then have parents who gift books. We also check out like 30-40 items at a time from the library. But keep her reading!

My boys always loved going for library preschool story time. They loved doing crafts related to books back when they were little sweeties. The children's librarian got the older guys into the Harry Potter books from the get-go. We would have to get the Canadian version from relatives so they could get them sooner. They were too young to read them themselves, but would sit for hours when I read Harry Potter to them.

My neighbor's little ones like those little libraries you see on different streets in neighborhoods. There is a coffee shop by the park with one, and the children's one is low enough the girls can reach and pick out the book they want to borrow. Or sometimes I get them a slushy and a very large coffee for me (cause when the little boy sits on my lap in the sunshine and I am reading a book I have read a million times to my own kids, it is a recipe for coma), and we read every picture book in there (usually around two dozen), and then all three of them pick a book to take home for their mommy to read to them. The oldest girl, I have hooked on Junie B.Jones books that she can read herself.

When my second oldest brought a book order home the first time in kindergarten, I told him to circle the books he wanted. He circled every book in the flyer except one with a ballerina on the front.

 

[stormchaser2014]

We're 5-0 now. We play our rivals next week who are also 5-0. It's going to be televised on The Ocho.

 

[BCClone]

There's a subreddit that is strictly dudes that want to rub one out together as they talk to each other about what they would do to female celebrities. I think this one has topped weirdest subreddits I've ever seen.

Who do you post about?

 

[BoxsterCy]

Who do you post about?

How can you not love this girl!

 

[SaraV]

Your eye-widening score for 4A tonight...

Fort Dodge 62, Ames 52

Oh, but wait...in "This Isn't a Basketball Score"....
Woodbine 96, Clarinda Academy 76

 

[GTO]

Your eye-widening score for 4A tonight...

Fort Dodge 62, Ames 52

Oh, but wait...in "This Isn't a Basketball Score"....
Woodbine 96, Clarinda Academy 76

That is a lot of runs!

 

[cyrocksmypants]

Who do you post about?

I'm all about people letting their freak flag fly, but that one ain't my fetish.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Quiet morning on the interweb. Resisting temptation to post mocking counterpoints on people's FB posts. Like posting into a friend-of-a-friends post that you see only because your friend posted to it or reacted to it and the OP made it public. Must resist urge to post "First world problems, dude, first world problems" at a person I don't know.

 

[Cybirdy]

First fall softball games today. Got her up at 7:15 to be out the door by 8:15 for 9:30 call time for 11am game. Play 11a, 3:30, and 6:30 (if no rain delays). Back home after 9:30pm to do it all over again tomorrow. Welcome to the weekend!

 

[stormchaser2014]

Your eye-widening score for 4A tonight...

Fort Dodge 62, Ames 52

Oh, but wait...in "This Isn't a Basketball Score"....
Woodbine 96, Clarinda Academy 76

That sounds like an 8 man score. Are those schools 8 man?

 

[BoxsterCy]

All this high school sports stuff.

The last time I paid attention to HS sports was.....

From mildewy old box in the parental units attic.

 

[Cybirdy]

Monte just posted the most adorable video on Instagram. Coach Prohm is videoing Cass and asks him "What do you want to do?" Snapchat! "Who do you Snapchat?" Monte!

 

[cyrevkah]

It's nice to be feeling better. I woke up this morning and completed three loads of laundry, washed dishes, ordered groceries and eating lunch. I still have some yuck, but I'm not coughing as much.

I'm hoping to take Z to the STEM event today.

 

[Cybirdy]

It's nice to be feeling better. I woke up this morning and completed three loads of laundry, washed dishes, ordered groceries and eating lunch. I still have some yuck, but I'm not coughing as much.

I'm hoping to take Z to the STEM event today.

Shoot, I was going to say Cardinal Gymnastics (in Beyer) was having $2 open gym, but it was from 10-12 today.

 

[cyrevkah]

Shoot, I was going to say Cardinal Gymnastics (in Beyer) was having $2 open gym, but it was from 10-12 today.

That would have been fun too!

 

[Cybirdy]

That would have been fun too!

It is National Gymnastics day. Success is having open gym tonight, but it is $10 and ages 4+. $2 is a lot better deal.