Candy corn madness, poor Sampson & The Girl Scout Promise...

LMAO @ my title for this blog huh!?!? Hahah! Okay to start off... sheer and utter madness over at my joint when Emma gets out of school at 3 pm. We get home, make a snack of toast w/ strawberry jam and then she's all hopped up! She always bounces off the walls when she gets home, sometimes she's tired and lays down for a few minutes, but that's pretty rare these days. I made the mistake of giving Abby a piece of candy corn and now she's going insane, begging for more and trying to the push the chair over to the counter to obtain the sacred candy of pure sugar. *sigh* So... when we walked through the door today, Emma informed me that something "bad" happened today at school. I inquired and after a few "well, well well..." (she stammers when she's excited or is thinking too hard) she lets me in on the fact that Sampson (I could be spelling the fellow's name entirely wrong, but for now, it shall remain) pee'd his pants in class today. Poor Sampson!!! Emma pee'd her pants on the 3rd day of school and it was pretty sad. I had to take her a spare change of clothes, it was more traumatic for me, I think, than her. Anyway, back to Sampson... I was in the midst of dropping two pieces of wheat toast into the toaster, as Emma explained something that I found quite odd.... She said that when the teachers' got the "light on", that no one can talk to her. And when she turns the "light off", then students are allowed to talk to her. While said "light" is on, the students are free to chat amongst themselves, but apparently not to the teacher (as Emma explains)... Well the light was "on" when poor little Sampson felt the urge to go potty, and since he's not supposed "to talk to the teacher while the light is on", he pee'd his pants. Does this sound very odd to anyone else, or is it just me? Why would the teacher implement such a thing, it sounds absurd. And Emma went on to say that the teacher told the classroom after the mishap w/ poor little Sampson, that even if the light is "on", and you have to use the potty, you may talk to the teacher... ?! I got a little upset, and irritated, which Emma thought I was getting fiesty and mad at HER (which I wasn't, but she's 5, she doesn't know any better)- and had a little rant. I probably should have kept my mouth shut because the next thing you know, Emma's going to be at school repeating my choice words about her teacher's strange "light on/off" thing. Hahah! I can see it now! *sigh* So, perhaps I will bring it up during parent/teacher conferences sometime the first week of Nov- I'm not sure which day we will get assigned to go in, but I'm very much so looking forward to Jeremy and I sitting down with her to see how she thinks Emma is doing.
Ahhh... the third Tuesday of the month... Girl Scout night. Hopefully tonight will be a little more thrilling than last meeting where we just signed stuff, introduced ourselves and were told to pimp out (sell) magazines and nuts. Ugh. We haven't sold anything, and I'm okay with that. I feel funny about pimping my child out there to sell Girl Scout goods anyways... but you better believe that when cookie time comes (I guess Jan or Feb), we'll be selling our little butts off... well probably selling to OURSELVES! Haha! That should be fun. So, we've been going over the Girl Scout Promise that Emma needs to memorize in order to recieve a badge- well her's are called "petals" because she's a Girl Scout Daisy. So are you guys ready, because here we go:

"On my honor, I will try:

To serve God and my country,

To help people at all times

And to live by the Girl Scout Law"

Now, I won't go into the Girl Scout Law, it's quite long and involved and my Carple Tunnel is acting up, LOL! But, she'll have to memorize both of them eventually. *sigh* This Girl Scouts thing is kind of tiring. Anyway, so I have beef boiling away for strogenoff this evening to eat before we head out at 6 pm for our meeting. I hope it's not nearly as long as it was last time, and the leader said that all meetings wouldn't go as long, but you never know. I can't imagine trying to wrangle 12 5 year olds, AHHHHH! My head would spin right off my shoulders. I will be in attendance to all of her meetings, I'm not the kind of mother that drops their kids off with strangers to bounce around a room for an hour- I gotta be involved, yanno! Okay, well that was my big blog for the day. Thanks for reading! :)