Sad but True

Ok so I am supposed to be adding funny stories from little kid. Here is one that isn't so funny but it is very true.
My job at the grade school two hours a day consists of working for the special ed. teacher one day I am in the sped room, while all the kids are at recess, having a discussion with the teacher when one of the aides brings in the little kid that is a real handful. You know the one that always disrupts everything. He had hit someone on recess, he needed to go home. Going home always makes him mad. He comes in the room, throws his glasses across the room and is heading out of there. As I grab the glasses I tell him to stop, this ticks him off more and so he picks up an individual dry erase board and throws it. Bang right into my forehead, immediately blood gushes out, of course I have a white sweater on. The aide comes out of the office, where she had been calling home, sees blood and freaks out. The teachers sees blood and hustles to the office to get something to soak up the blood. More on that later. The kid doesn't care, he is evil.

Meanwhile I get over the sink and proceed to bleed into the sink until the whole thing is red. At one point I am not sure if it really will stop. Here comes the teacher back with a pad to absorb the blood. At least I can quit bleeding into the sink freaking the aide out. Here's the more on the teacher I promised, I get the pad on my head, the aide has the kid somewhat calmed down and another aide has shown up. So off to the office I go to take care of myself. The teacher follows me. She said she was in such a hurry to get me help she tripped over the scale that is in the office sick room and fell and crashed into a box and the sink. I go around the corner and there it is a cardboard box smashed flat on the floor. Can't help but find this funny I can just see her fallng and trying to catch herself on a box.

But five stitches, and a black eye later the kid is out of our school and we can teach students in peace. Superindendant quote the next day is "thanks for taking one for the team." HaHa.

SO ITS BEEN AWHILE

Well I kind of gave up on my old blog adventures in shopping. And have decided to start posting funny things kids do and say as school. So here is the first entry.

I have come to the conculsion that third graders are the funniest kids at the school. It begins with one of them wanting to make stress balls for friends in her class and when she comes to school with them they are made outta dad's "special baloons, individually wrapped." This mortifies the teacher and he has to gently get them away from her and her friends without making a big deal. Next we have the third graders in my math group. One of them calls me grandma the other day when she is asking for help. I say excuse me??? and she says oh you remind me of my grandma you look like your bones are turning to dust. To this I could do nothing but laugh. How do you get mad at that. Stay tuned I will keep you posted with more funny stories from the third grade.

So I went shopping with the girls yesterday. Had to buy hubby a coat for snowmobiling in two weeks. We have been looking for three months for a coat for him that would fit, be water proof and not look totally gay. A manly coat. I feel victim to the made in China issue. The girls said that this has to be the end of my blog cause now I have bought a couple things made in china. I think if I read the beginning of this right I was simply going to try to do this. I kind of knew going in that I could not be completely successful. Well anyway got the coat made in china. Columbia sports made in China why are so many American companies moving their manufacturing to China when so many Americans are out of work? Questions I can not answer.

After buying the coat we moved on to the mall. Lots of people in the Mall which I really hate. Cherilyn and I ditched Tara and Erica in bath and body works and headed over to Christopher and Banks. Lots of stuff on clearence I love clearence. Cherilyn found this really cute top for me, it was green and white very cute very businessy. Look at the tag also made in China. This time I resisted. Didn't really need the top even though it was very cute. I do have will power in this resolution. Ended our day by eating at the Mongolian grill very good food I always love eating there. Was just a little confused as to why mexicans were cooking the food in a Mongolian restraunt? All in all we had a good day. Some laughing, some shopping, some eating does it get any better?

Food

So I have been forgetting to look at my food labels for country of orgin. Yesterday I remembered. The green tea I like, and some rice I was going to buy was the only things I found made in China. Picked a different brand of each and was happy. I am glad to see that maybe I haven't blown it with my food purchases. I am hoping to remember from now on. Need to have another shopping trip with the girls so I can write something funny.

So before Christmas I ordered a pair of easy tone workout shoes from my sister. They were having a hard time keeping them in stock and she was gone a lot so finally I got them yesterday. Put them on they feel great, a little snug but will stretch out I am sure. Wore them around for a couple of hours and delivered Cherilyn's to her. She texted me an hour later and said "they are made in China you have to send yours back". I responded that I didn't buy them Donna owed me some money for something I had bought for a Christmas present so this is an exchange. Cherilyn still thinks I need to send them back, I say "they were ordered before the resultion was made". Now I am feeling like I am justifying having something made in China. Should I send them back or not? How will I ever decide? What to do what to do???!!!!

So here is the latest adventure of shopping. I went grocery shopping tonight and needed to pick up a new lunch box and theroms for Tod to take while working. Food shopping took a while, and of course WalMart didn't have any cooler style lunch boxes or thermos', so off to Bi-Mart we go. Of course Cherilyn is with me. We got the lunch box and the thermos, and of course shopping includes laughing and talking so I forgot to check the made in China status of my items.

I am sitting at home chatting with Cherilyn and the thought comes to my mind I didn't even look. Of course on the lunch box didn't have any stickers or lables so no point of reference there. Almost didn't get to buy it because of this they had to send two guys to sporting goods to try and find the price. So I go on line and look for the coleman company, to my suprise it has a list of countries that they produce their products in the top of the list is the USA, but no where on the list is China. I think I am safe on that one. The thermos, however, I was not so lucky. It says right on the lable Made in China. What should I do. Should I scrap my resolution? Take it back or keep it and say I will do better next time? I will more than likely keep it and say I will do better next time. Taking it back means another trip to town and then trying to find one that isn't made in China. I am really suprised that a Stanley thermos is made in China. That is a very American name brand. I don't know the more I think of it the more I think I will take it back and try to find on made in any country than China. Part of this resolution is the challenge of making these finds. I will keep you posted.

So I bought a new bag for my lap top and day planner. It is a big cool looking shinny red bag. Searched for quite a while to find one not made in China. Ordered the bag, along with a co-worker who actually found this one for me cause she is trying the same thing of buying nothing from China.

We were really excited to find these bags and when they showed up I was confronted with a delema. Inside the bag was a pen which had a tag on it "made in China". Researched the bags lables yes made in America, but what is with this pen made in China? I didn't purchase the pen did I? What if I use the pen? All these problems started poping up what to do? Didn't want to break my resolution so quickly into the new year so I dropped the pen into the drawer of another co-worker who doesn't really care where her stuff is from. I feel less guilty and she has a new pen. In my world that makes us both winners.