Today for the very first time I was officially the butt of a “mama” joke.

Charleigh just got off the bus semi-upset.
(That’s semi-upset which means she wasn’t blubbering just acting a little indignant.) I asked her what was wrong and she proceeded to spill out all the not so gory details of how the big kids on the bus told her she was the “ugliest girl in the school”. As I consoled her she informed me “That’s not even the worst of it!”.
She then told me that the mean boys called her mom the “S” word. (Now let me interject here, to Charleigh the “S” word refers to “Stupid” not the word you were thinking of) “AND” she loudly exclaimed “they said you were. . .” pausing for dramatic effect she then lowers her voice and completes the sentence under her breath “fat“.

“Can you believe that Mom?!? They’ve never even met you! I think they were just trying to make me mad!”

Kaleb then explained the aspects of your average bully and the best way to deal with such situations. Then he told her not to worry about the “mom” parts. He said mean boys just say those things cause they know if you talk about a little girls mommy it will hurt there feelings. After all his advice he decided it would be best if he sat with her on the way home tomorrow. What a brother!

Update: It’s not good to publish a post addressing ones intelligence without first spell checking it. Hope no one noticed those little “oopses” before I fixed them.

Friday night was the Harvest Carnival at the kids school. Charleigh was quite excited about her lovely costume. Oh, and look who was the Elementary School Harvest King!

The night was full of games and candy. Kurt and I both served our obligatory time working in the class booths. The royalty was finally crowned at 9pm. We were more than ready to head home by that time! We hear that after we left they still had a few hours of BINGO fun left. Apparently small town school carnival is a call for the whole town to party all night. We may have been up for more fun if I had been feeling better and if Kurt hadn’t already driven well over 300 miles that day. All in all the kids had a fabulous time and besides the extreme disappointment on missing bingo they came home pretty sugared up and happy.