Today I went to pick up Joshy at school. After a stint of being homeschooled he decided he'd like to go back, so he goes for a half day and we finish working at home. When I went to the door, he was waiting there with the principal and when she opened the door there had been a little garter snake hiding under the edge of the weather strip on the bottom, and he fell out when she opened the door. Well...she let out a scream that would wake the dead and I can't be sure, but out of the corner of my eye I thought I saw a trickle of pee running down her leg from under her skirt. Josh was behind her and couldn't reach it, so he yells "get him, mom!" so...what could I do? She was panicked and it looked like it was heading into the building....so as casually as I could (with all the kids filing by from lunch recess) reached down and picked it up. Naturally it decided to be dramatic and flail around and try to bite me, which made her squeal even more- so I took it over to the grass and got rid of it as quick as I could. But-too late....we had an audience of about 25 fourth graders watching. Guess who the cool mom is now? :)
On the way home I found out that Caleb and Josh have a plan. After they eat lunch and go outside, they line their lunchboxes up by the building. We have a small rural school that has a lot of trees around. Their plan is to "catch things" at lunch recess, sneak them into their lunchboxes and bring them home. I highly discouraged this...after what I saw this morning I can't even imagine what would happen if their "pets" got out in the classroom...not to mention driving home unknowingly hauling a mini zoo in the back seat. I don't mind most critters, but I certainly do not want a snake slithering up my gas pedal leg.
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