Thoughts From the Minivan: First day of the new school year!

First day of the new school year!

4 comments:

Gretchen said...: I'm about to take some pictures of our school room for my blog..we start on Monday!
What are the "rules" or whatever you have hanging below your white board? I couldn't quite read them...

Looks great in there!; August 19, 2008 at 8:22 AM
Jen said...: they're from "Uncommon Courtesy for Kids" (same people that wrote "21 Rules of the House").; August 19, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Gretchen said...: Do you have a list of them? The book is back-ordered.; August 19, 2008 at 5:31 PM
Jeanie said...: Jenny,
How are you??
I LOVE your lil desks...how sweet!
I have a blog, but on my page...www.yturaldi.com
Hope this finds you well..
Jeanie : ); September 14, 2008 at 10:05 PM

Mother, O Mother, come shake out your cloth,
Empty the dustpan, poison the moth,
Hang out the washing, make up the bed,
Sew on a button and butter the bread.

Where is the mother whose house is so shocking?
She's up in the nursery, blissfully rocking.

Oh, I've grown as shiftless as Little Boy Blue,
Lullabye, rockabye, lullabye loo.
Dishes are waiting and bills are past due
Pat-a-cake, darling, and peek, peekaboo

The shopping's not done and there's nothing for stew
And out in the yard there's a hullabaloo
But I'm playing Kanga and this is my Roo
Look! Aren't his eyes the most wonderful hue?
Lullabye, rockaby lullabye loo.

The cleaning and scrubbing can wait till tomorrow
But children grow up as I've learned to my sorrow.
So quiet down cobwebs; Dust go to sleep!
I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

-Ruth Hurlburt Hamilton (1958)