Madison's homework assignment today was to write an opinion piece. Which, as far as I know, is her first opinion piece she's ever written. The topic she was asked to write about? Her favorite kind of pizza. Here is her masterpiece:
I think that pepperoni pizza is the best pizza. My mother and father also like pepperoni pizza. When my parents were with me in China, they saw squid pizza! My opinion is that squid pizza is gross! Yuk! We think that pepperoni pizza tastes much better than squid pizza.
And there you go. The truth is that squid pizza might in fact be good if given a chance. While we were over there to meet Madison, we saw that as a topping for pizza. This was a new one. We've all heard someone say, "Hold the anchovies." But I've never heard anyone say, "Hold the squid."
Today we had piano, and we were done with "Showtime Rag," which was a fairly difficult piece to play with both hands. There is this new gypsy-sounding piece, which actually isn't a gypsy song. It's something Jewish in three-quarter time. Daddy was reminded of a gypsy piece when all the kids were given tambourines in order to play out the three-quarter time rhythm. The piece progressively got faster and faster, until of course the kids could not keep up, and instead chose to break down into laughter!
On the way home, Madison asked for the same thing she's been asking for each ride home with Daddy: a story about Flower Girl from the Future. Flower Girl is one of the X-Men. Apparently, somewhere along the line, she came from the future along with Bishop, the time traveling X-Man from the future. I can't exactly remember where Flower Girl first appeared in Madison's mind, but she's been solidly there for the last year. To the point that just about every make-up story involves her helping all the other X-men doing something dramatic. Today's mission: rescuing the Easter Bunny. Magneto had an egg gun, and the Easter Bunny was locked away in a tower. And the X-Men saved Easter. And that's probably all you need to know!
Homework was quick, and dinner was another wonderful salad. Afterwards, there was barely enough time for some Disney Infinity 2.0, where we actually completed the story mode already for "The Avengers." This, thanks to special guests Nova and Rocket Raccoon. Who we had to choose because this ginormous ice monster from Jรถtenheim had whooped up on the entire rest of the team. Leave it to a raccoon with a laser gun to do all the work.
In the end, we were in bed once again. That's usually how it works each night. We read about Essau making peace with his brother Jacob, who expected a similar whooping as described above (minus the large ice creature). We said our prayers, at which point Mommy and Daddy snuck down the hall to watch some television in bed. We hadn't done that in a while. There was a repeat on television tonight, the episode of "Agent Carter" that they just showed last week. SO, we watched a gem of a movie Daddy found at Goodwill this week: "A Simple Twist of Fate." It's based on "Silas Marner," a book Daddy had to read in high school. And here's where we talk about being forced to read classic novels that you don't appreciate, and in some cases never will (like squid pizza). Eventually, I did grow to like the story of "Silas Marner" quite a bit, unlike "The Grapes of Wrath."
Anyway, that's one I read in high school. And years later, I appreciated it. And we appreciated this movie tonight too - it's a neat little movie that I haven't seen available anywhere in quite some time.
I think that pepperoni pizza is the best pizza. My mother and father also like pepperoni pizza. When my parents were with me in China, they saw squid pizza! My opinion is that squid pizza is gross! Yuk! We think that pepperoni pizza tastes much better than squid pizza.
And there you go. The truth is that squid pizza might in fact be good if given a chance. While we were over there to meet Madison, we saw that as a topping for pizza. This was a new one. We've all heard someone say, "Hold the anchovies." But I've never heard anyone say, "Hold the squid."
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On the way home, Madison asked for the same thing she's been asking for each ride home with Daddy: a story about Flower Girl from the Future. Flower Girl is one of the X-Men. Apparently, somewhere along the line, she came from the future along with Bishop, the time traveling X-Man from the future. I can't exactly remember where Flower Girl first appeared in Madison's mind, but she's been solidly there for the last year. To the point that just about every make-up story involves her helping all the other X-men doing something dramatic. Today's mission: rescuing the Easter Bunny. Magneto had an egg gun, and the Easter Bunny was locked away in a tower. And the X-Men saved Easter. And that's probably all you need to know!
Homework was quick, and dinner was another wonderful salad. Afterwards, there was barely enough time for some Disney Infinity 2.0, where we actually completed the story mode already for "The Avengers." This, thanks to special guests Nova and Rocket Raccoon. Who we had to choose because this ginormous ice monster from Jรถtenheim had whooped up on the entire rest of the team. Leave it to a raccoon with a laser gun to do all the work.
In the end, we were in bed once again. That's usually how it works each night. We read about Essau making peace with his brother Jacob, who expected a similar whooping as described above (minus the large ice creature). We said our prayers, at which point Mommy and Daddy snuck down the hall to watch some television in bed. We hadn't done that in a while. There was a repeat on television tonight, the episode of "Agent Carter" that they just showed last week. SO, we watched a gem of a movie Daddy found at Goodwill this week: "A Simple Twist of Fate." It's based on "Silas Marner," a book Daddy had to read in high school. And here's where we talk about being forced to read classic novels that you don't appreciate, and in some cases never will (like squid pizza). Eventually, I did grow to like the story of "Silas Marner" quite a bit, unlike "The Grapes of Wrath."
Anyway, that's one I read in high school. And years later, I appreciated it. And we appreciated this movie tonight too - it's a neat little movie that I haven't seen available anywhere in quite some time.
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