In the carpool pickup line today.
Mrs. Lund: Hey, Brian.
Brian, age 4: I’m not Brian. I’m Chevy Dealership.
Mrs. Lund: Hey, Chevy Dealership.
Chevy Dealership: Hi.
(Brian speaks with the world’s greatest deadpan. He is always 100%, housing market-grade serious. Since the start of the school year, Brian has also been: Ambulance, Laundromat, 87th and Cottage [...]
Author Archives: Virginia
Mar 13
And You Used to Pretend to be Spiderman
PB&J
The amazing Deirdre and Conor wrote this song together.
Congratulations to the two of them! We couldn’t be happier that they are getting married.
We Could Pretend to be Enormous
I remember going to a dollhouse store once, and coming home with a tiny 24-pack of old fashioned coke bottles in a little red carrying case. Each bottle was maybe the length of my pinky nail.
They were the pride and joy of my dollhouse. Because they LOOKED like REAL COKE BOTTLES — only [...]
Jaleel Plans my Birthday
Mrs. Lund: My birthday is next weekend.
Room full of Six Year Olds: Can we come to your party?
Mrs. Lund: Oh, a party for me is more like a book, a bubble bath and a cupcake.
Jaleel : Mrs. Lund, if it’s your birthday, you can eat your cupcake in the bathtub.
Mrs. Lund: Jaleel, you just [...]
One of the best parts
about mornings when Carolyn and I were kids was sharing the funny pages. We read them every day. Even the ones we called “serious,” which were mainly grouped on the second, or “bad”, page. We each discovered that the other had begun reading the serious ones quite by accident. It happened around the time that [...]
I’m not so sure.
Thaddeus: Mrs. Lund, I’m sorry to bother you, but I heard Kala call Charisma a stupid retarded horse.
Mrs. Lund: You’re sure she said horse? Like the animal?
Thaddeus: looking at Mrs. Lund with disbelief. Yeah.
Mrs. Lund: sighs I’ll… go talk to her. Thanks.
There are all these helicopters
And I don’t know why. I’m googling to find out if Chicago just won the world helicopter cup or something, but I can’t figure anything out. Should I be heading down to the basement with Barkley and some rations of peanut butter?
In other news, I walked across some gravel on my way home [...]
I was there.
Mrs. Lund is leaving school for the day when she passes a line of pre schoolers on the stairs.
PRE SCHOOLERS: Goodbye, Mrs. Lund.
MRS. LUND: Bye, guys.
PRE SCHOOL BOY: Mrs. Lund! Mrs. Lund! I saw you in chapel this morning!
MRS. LUND: Yes, you did. An uncomfortable pause ensues while the entire pre school class stares at [...]
Brak’s Tales of Suspense
That tale of suspense reminded me of this one.
