Setting the Record Straight

Jesse has been wanting to go to this thing called "club" all the time. You see his school friends go and so he wanted to go so badly because it would be so fun. Come to find out there is one club that is a daily after-school club that only kids with 2 parents working can go to and the other one is called "Sisters club" on Thursday afternoon that all kids are eligible for.

Now--I did not want J going to club. I feel that his school is enough time away from the family. But I thought since he repeatedly asked for it, he should try it once and then maybe visit on special occasions. Or maybe he wouldn't like it. After all wouldn't he be too tired to hang out there from 3:20 to 5:45?

Well, on Thursday morning we went up to the teeny-tiny old nun sitting at a table outside of his classroom and signed him up for sisters club. The very first thing that happened was that Jesse, upon seeing the nun, said "Wow! You look really old!"
And I said "Jesse!" but the that was it, after all making a big deal out of that just makes it worse and he did say it innocently--that was just his observation I guess. Well I paid a pound fifty for club plus one pound so he could pick out his snack when the time came. Yeah, I was just thrilled to hear that they got to choose between coke and lemonade, and candy bars and some other things. Which made a whole lot of sense combined with the other factor of club--that there's between 80 and 100 children supervised by 7 or 8 nuns. Are they all as teeny-tiny as this one?

Well, I don't know and they sure are cute and well-meaning. But when I came at 5:45, Jesse was saying he was so tired, it must be his bedtime, and that he thought I was never gonna come, and that he never, ever, ever, ever, ever wanted to go to club again. Well, I will consider him cured. Should be all I will hear about club again! Oh, and the snack table was entirely bins of gummy candy like you see in a candy store--these were their choices.

Luci.

Every morning for the past month Luci says, "Why Jesse goes to school and I'm a girl and I don't go to school?"

This morning I heard her say, as she was pretending with her Old McDonald (Donald Duck), "You go to school because you are a boy and I don't go to school because I'm a girl, and Old McDonald's a boy so he goes to school. No matter how many times we correct her,("'No. Luci. The reason you don't go to school is because you are too young not because you are a girl") she maintains this idea. I want to say, "This is the 2000's, women can go to school!"