Friday was field day. The kids were pretty excited. Well, what kid wouldn't be? You get to run around for a few hours outside and don't have to do any school work. Not that they are doing any school work at this point in the year anyway. I mean, there's four days of school left. They aren't learning crap.
So the kids were excited. Me? Not so much. First of all, I had to miss my class at Lifetime to go. Not that I love 5K Friday and the torture my trainer puts me through, but I've already paid for the class and I've been doing really well that I hate to skip. Second, Amanda is out of school already so she had to come with me. Field Day is okay for parents, but really boring for siblings. Sarah went from 9a-11a and then Andy went from 1p-3p so we were there all day. We didn't even go home after it was over, we just hung out on the playground until it was time to pick them up at 3:30.
On top of that, it was super windy. So, it was a nice, sunny day but it was so windy that I had jeans and a sweatshirt on. The weather here is so weird I just can't get used to it. If we were in Texas we would already be getting 100 degree days, and I'm wearing a sweatshirt for warmth on May 31. Weird.
Of course all Field Day did was make me miss Texas. The Field Day that our old school put on was amazing. It was an entire day of activities plus the PTA would have a little snack bar where the kids could buy chips and candy and even the snow cone truck came. It was a big class competition and everybody got into it and loved it. The Field Day here was fine and the kids enjoyed it, but there were no winners or losers and they didn't even really do class competitions. There were even a few games that I didn't even understand. Plus it was only two hours and there weren't any snacks and the only thing they had for the kids was popsicles. I know, I should shut up and join the PTA and maybe I can make a difference and it will get better. I might do that if I cared a little more, but I don't.
This is where to post takes a turn. I need to get more involved and get the kids more involved too. But somewhere in my head I keep thinking that we aren't going to be here that long and why waste the time or the energy and is it really worth it and I don't get involved. You would think a school with 850 students would have a totally amazing PTA but there are like five people that do everything. I could bring some great ideas just telling them about all the awesome things our old school did. Some of them they could easily implement and others would be really hard because of the lack of parent involvement. I guess we were really lucky at out old school. Some times it seemed like there was too much parent involvement and everything was over the top, but I'm starting to realize that's not a bad thing. We had room moms who were given direction from the grade level room moms who were given direction from either the K-2 or 3-5 room moms who were given direction from the head room mom. I thought it was all a little much until I came here and realized that some of the classes don't even have room moms.
End rant. So the kids had Field Day on Friday, they had a blast, I got wind blasted and had to listen to Amanda whine for four hours, and I came closer and closer to having them home for the summer. Four more days. I think I can do it.
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