Ellie came home from school very excited about a new friend she’d made. She wanted to have her for a sleepover. She couldn’t recall her name but they were best friends and this sleepover must get planned asap. She told me to call her mother and set it up. No problem. I just need a couple of pieces of information before that can happen. Name and phone number to start and of course birth certificates documenting you are both ten years old, the age you will need to reach before I will begin to allow sleepovers.

Hanna mentioned there is a boy in her class whose family owns a restaurant. She thinks it might be East Side Mario’s. Sweet. All you can eat bread and salad for the class Christmas party.

Ellie then informed me Grace announced her dad owns her entire neighbourhood. I’m hoping when Ellie recalls the slumber party invitee it is someone other than Grace.

The kids ran for Terry the Fox today, clearly a lesson that was a little over their heads but they got outside for some fresh air and ran around for an hour having contributed their $2 donation to cancer research. Hanna’s note home in her own printing requested $200 for the Terry Fox Run. I’m hoping they are going to be working on the ever-so-important decimal soon. It did seem a little steep when factoring in, hot lunch money, cold drink money, pizza money, shoebox Christmas, bake-sale, raffle tickets, school bbq fundraiser, magazine fundraiser, field trip money, jump rope for heart money, picture day money, random acts of kindness donations, donations to the human fund. I’ll soon have to crack open one of the kid’s piggy banks to help support their free public school education.

For now, we are working on the name of our best friend and a birth date.