Fun Day

So if you've been to the SS thread you know my SS gift came today. So yay! I ate most of the chocolate already. Don't tell the Bloggest Losers. I guess I have to do extra work on the Bowflex tonight.

Today was also the Holiday Assembly at the kids' school. Now, you have to understand that before our school was split into JK-3 and 4-8, parental involvment was kinda low. I can't even be self-righteous, because I considered DS my primary responsibility and didn't help out at the school either. Anyway. I've already said how thrilled I am with all the people who turn up to help out with the Breakfast Program. Additionally, we have a number of in-classroom helpers for JK and SK. This is especially cool when you realise that to volunteer in the school, you have to have a police check which you have to pay for yourself. It's only $15, but still.

So my point is that the assembly was packed with parents and grandparents and whoever else. Packed. They were standing on their tippy toes outside the gym door. There was a bake sale and the tables were full. Full. They had to come and take our tables from the breakfast room. They stole all our trays, too. I contributed a cake and some cupcakes to the sale. They sold everything.

Side note: I found these spiffy tree-shaped cake pans made of tin foil. They came with plastic lids. How cool is that?

Bragging: the cake was intended for the raffle, but they said the cupcakes were too nice to sell for $0.25, so they went to the raffle too.

Non-bragging: it's not really hard to cover a cupcake in large stars and then stick a couple flowers on top. It was just a mix cake anyway.

More bragging: the flowers were pointsettias. I made them out of buttercream, because royal icing is gross. I even used the cake sparkle thingies. They looked pretty cool.

More non-bragging: but in the end, it was still just a mix. I can't make cake to save my life. Hard as stone, every. single. time.

More presents: the Vice Principal gave us breakfast ladies a thank-you present! A coffee mug and some certificates for Horton's.

Assembly: the kids were all great! I get all teary-eyed at kids singing at Christmas. The SK class did a Hawaiian dance. It was so cute! DS's JK class sang three songs, including one that had a lot of mumbled words and then a part that went "HA HA HA! HO HO HO! SANTA'S COMING TONIGHT I KNOW!" DS was nervous, but DD, who is an old pro because of ballet, explained to him about stage fright and actually made him feel better about it. That's my Big Girl! Her class was the last one up. They did the three songs that I've been hearing from 3pm to 8:45pm every. single. day. "The teacher said to practice, Mom!"

It's been a good day.