Once Madison was home from school, it was time to be whisked off to another magical place: school! Yep, we turned around and went back to school - but this time it wasn't for a parent-teacher meeting. This time it was for the Book Fair!
Back in my day, we didn't have a Book Fair. We had a Bookmobile. This was the ultimate ride, if you're into that sort of thing. You walked up into this truck, and it was like you were in another world, just loaded with books. Plus, the name "Bookmobile" is cool. Only the Wienermobile tops this vehicle on popular car lists.
Back to the Book Fair though: we went to the library, which seemed like a good place to put books. A section was converted into a Book Fair, which wasn't so much a "fair," but rather a place where they had a whole bunch of books for sale. When one hears the word "fair," the general thinking is that there'll be rides, candy and loud music - but that isn't quite the case here.
Daddy was very enthused to go about looking at books with Madison. Of course, we let her pick her own book. Mommy even found a book for herself, filled with creative dessert ideas. Daddy found a book to read to Madison later, which actually went really well with her homework assignment:
The book is about a boy who is telling his teacher what he wants to do when he grows up. Madison had a homework assignment where she had to fill in the blank: When I grow up, I want to be a ____________. Immediately, you cannot be an astronaut, engineer, or architect, because that would be bad grammar (article agreement).
To help with this assignment, Daddy read this book to Madison, which was a lot of fun. One of the reasons for the fun was that it was written by the man himself, "Weird Al" Yankovic. I think they took the "Weird" part out of his name on the cover in order to give him a more scholarly name.
Anyway, we listed a squillion careers with Madison after reading this humorous books: all options for Madison when she gets older. Yes, there were plenty we left off the list (telemarketer, septic tank specialist, etc.). Daddy thought for sure she'd go with paleontologist or something cool like that, but ultimately she chose dancer. Daddy made sure she elaborated on that "dancer" part by having her write in "ballerina." Don't want any confusion there!
So the book fair was a big success, anyway. Madison did pick her own book, which was a Lego Star Wars book. This book fair was evidently sponsored by Legos, because there were a lot of Lego books there. There were other books too, but we wanted to get out of there without spending fifteen trillion dollars.
Earlier in the day, we had another Christmas meeting. These meetings work best when they're actually on your days off, apparently. That aside, we're just now starting to discover the costuming ideas fountaining forth from the creative tank. That gives poor Mommy a very limited time to get things together, of course. But we don't expect it any other way - some churches have their acts together back in August, but (sarcasm alert) that's way too soon for such a large project like this!
Okay, enough of that. Today after the meeting, we went to Texas Roadhouse to eat. It was an official date for Mommy and Daddy, and that was nice. We headed home after that, and got ready for the book fair, where we got about four books total - and a gift card for Madison's teacher. Sometime on her break, she'll run down the hall and spend her gift card at the book fair before it leaves town. She'll probably get a book with Legos in it.
Back in my day, we didn't have a Book Fair. We had a Bookmobile. This was the ultimate ride, if you're into that sort of thing. You walked up into this truck, and it was like you were in another world, just loaded with books. Plus, the name "Bookmobile" is cool. Only the Wienermobile tops this vehicle on popular car lists.
Back to the Book Fair though: we went to the library, which seemed like a good place to put books. A section was converted into a Book Fair, which wasn't so much a "fair," but rather a place where they had a whole bunch of books for sale. When one hears the word "fair," the general thinking is that there'll be rides, candy and loud music - but that isn't quite the case here.
Daddy was very enthused to go about looking at books with Madison. Of course, we let her pick her own book. Mommy even found a book for herself, filled with creative dessert ideas. Daddy found a book to read to Madison later, which actually went really well with her homework assignment:
The book is about a boy who is telling his teacher what he wants to do when he grows up. Madison had a homework assignment where she had to fill in the blank: When I grow up, I want to be a ____________. Immediately, you cannot be an astronaut, engineer, or architect, because that would be bad grammar (article agreement).
To help with this assignment, Daddy read this book to Madison, which was a lot of fun. One of the reasons for the fun was that it was written by the man himself, "Weird Al" Yankovic. I think they took the "Weird" part out of his name on the cover in order to give him a more scholarly name.
Anyway, we listed a squillion careers with Madison after reading this humorous books: all options for Madison when she gets older. Yes, there were plenty we left off the list (telemarketer, septic tank specialist, etc.). Daddy thought for sure she'd go with paleontologist or something cool like that, but ultimately she chose dancer. Daddy made sure she elaborated on that "dancer" part by having her write in "ballerina." Don't want any confusion there!
So the book fair was a big success, anyway. Madison did pick her own book, which was a Lego Star Wars book. This book fair was evidently sponsored by Legos, because there were a lot of Lego books there. There were other books too, but we wanted to get out of there without spending fifteen trillion dollars.
Earlier in the day, we had another Christmas meeting. These meetings work best when they're actually on your days off, apparently. That aside, we're just now starting to discover the costuming ideas fountaining forth from the creative tank. That gives poor Mommy a very limited time to get things together, of course. But we don't expect it any other way - some churches have their acts together back in August, but (sarcasm alert) that's way too soon for such a large project like this!
Okay, enough of that. Today after the meeting, we went to Texas Roadhouse to eat. It was an official date for Mommy and Daddy, and that was nice. We headed home after that, and got ready for the book fair, where we got about four books total - and a gift card for Madison's teacher. Sometime on her break, she'll run down the hall and spend her gift card at the book fair before it leaves town. She'll probably get a book with Legos in it.
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