A Wednesday without school

Whoo woo!

It's like a Saturday in the middle of the week. We used to get just Thursday and Friday off for Thanksgiving, but a few years ago, that changed. See, parents were taking kids out of school a day early to get on the road to where ever they are going for Thanksgiving. If we have less kids in school, we get less money. Really. Every time a parent takes a student out for a week, two week, even three week trip to Hawaii or snowboarding or to visit the Grand Canyon, the public school which he or she attends loses money. It's not as if the teachers get paid less for that day, or we use less electricity to turn on the lights and run the school, but that's the way it works.

So, the school board decided to give the students Wednesday off as well. A travel day, if you will.

Well, you can guess what's happened. Now instead of taking one extra day, lots of families decide to just take off for the week, and their students end up missing two days. That, in turn, makes it pretty darn hard to teach those two days, because so many seats are empty. We had a spelling test yesterday, because we have one every Tuesday, but... now I'm going to have to run after all those kids that missed it, and stay in at lunch or after school or something so they can make the test up.

Oh, and it was Pajama Day yesterday. It's fun, but hard to be taken seriously when one is wearing blue paisley, flannel pajamas and fluffy slippers.

I'm about to head off to the store to buy the ingredients for the three pies I'm making. I was only going to make two, but my sister insisted on another one. You know, there's only going to be 7 people there; practically half a pie each sounds right, don't you think?

Here are the three pies:
Rosemary cheddar-crusted Pear Pie (9)
Crumbleberry Pie (14)
Ginger spiced Pumpkin Pie (4)

The numbers after each one are how many weight watcher points each one is worth. I only get 26 points a day. Guess which one is my favorite, and which one I don't really care for?

Grr...