{"id":3074,"date":"2015-05-19T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T01:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2015-05-19T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T01:12:12","slug":"coffee-christine-toilet-paper-shoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anislandmom.com\/?p=3074","title":{"rendered":"Coffee with Christine: There Was Toilet Paper on My Shoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grab your coffee quickly; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m leading with the best part today.<\/p>\n

Recently, while in the bathroom at school, a piece of toilet paper managed to adhere itself to my shoe. For the record, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m confident the toilet paper did not belong to me.<\/p>\n

I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to know its origins.<\/p>\n

(I know; I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve just given out way too much completely necessary information.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, my colleague saved me from surefire embarrassment by notifying me of my attachment right as I was exiting the water closet. As a high school teacher, recovery from such a misadventure would be nigh impossible.<\/p>\n

I will now love her forever.<\/p>\n

(Although she may have killed what would have been a great story, as one can only imagine the sequence of events that would have occurred had I stepped back into my classroom with my shoe thus embellished. The moment could have gone head-to-head with my embarrassing moment at the bank<\/a>, for instance.)<\/p>\n

In much more exciting news, I won a giveaway from Modern Mia Gardening<\/a>! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned my ignominious past in the world of vegetation, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true, but years ago, the blog hooked me with its tagline: My valiant experiment with growing vegetables and getting my children to eat them<\/em>. Anyway, Mia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sweet children (a.k.a. the Wonder Kids)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 drew my name as one of the winners, and they sent me a bag (decorated by said children) filled with everything from beans to forget-me-nots. Because I like to live in irony, I got the idea to plant the forget-me-nots in this special little spot of ugliness near one corner of my house, and now I keep forgetting that I need to water that previously ignored spot of the yard.<\/p>\n

Good times.<\/p>\n

\"100_9011\"<\/a>This last Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day was nice; among other things, Baby-Girl put together a book complete with coupons for things like cleaning the bathroom and organizing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153anything you want.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wonder what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say when I hand her the house.<\/p>\n

\"100_9019\"<\/a>My younger two children had field day last week. When I arrived, I found Baby-Girl and her cohorts actually sunning their little selves and trying to stay dry while the other kids competed on the slip-and-slide. I was a little taken aback initially, as this seemed out of character for her, but later she confided in me that she was only struck diva out of sympathy for an injured friend. And her commiseration only lasted so long; a few minutes later she caved and ran through the slip-and-slide. My son, on the other hand, didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need a slip-and-slide provided for him.<\/p>\n

\"100_9026\"<\/a>True to form, he\u00c2\u00a0 created his own.<\/p>\n

\"100_9058\"<\/a>Finally, here are the formerly small people two days ago on our late afternoon beach \u00e2\u20ac\u0153walk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153walk\u00e2\u20ac\u009d they assured me wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t require swimsuits.<\/p>\n

\"100_9061\"<\/a>They may no longer be small, but some things never change<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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