Meet the Parents

There was a PTSA (Parent Teacher Student Association) coffee and chat on Tuesday after dropping off the children. Only about 20 moms and 1 dad went, but it was nice to meet some of the moms of Layth's classmates. That evening, K and I attended curriculum night and learned a little more about the kindergarten curriculum. There was a scary set of parents there who were pressuring everyone to sign a petition to get a teacher's aide for Mrs. Robinson, despite her obvious discomfort with the situation. She tried to reassure them that she was fine the way things were set up, but they were insistent. We signed, but hope that it won't reflect badly on Mrs. Robinson or make it look like she put us up to it.

The children and I explored the play areas at Bellevue Square Mall while K's parents did some shopping on Wednesday.





I went to a moms' night out at one of the other moms' houses on Thursday. She had a fantastic game room! There were several pinball machines, a pool table, a foosball table, darts, and an arcade game with hundreds of arcade games available on it. I regressed to my early teens and played Donkey Kong, Galaga, Dig Dug, Joust, and Pole Position. I want a game room like that! After snacking, playing, chatting, more snacking, more chatting, and watching a pool game or two, we headed downstairs to play something I'd never heard of called PervArtistry. Suffice it to say that I spent much of the evening blushing and learning embarrassing new phrases. Still, it was a really fun evening, and a nice break from playing mommy!

K tried one more time today to interest Layth in soccer, but they didn't even last 10 minutes on the field this time before they came home. That's it for soccer, for this year anyway. Known as football in England, it's too ingrained in K's culture for him to give up altogether. Rayan and I had a relaxing afternoon at home while the rest of the family trekked down to Puyallup for the Puyallup Fair. It looks like the children had a great time!