A Field Trip To Irony

Micah went on a field trip to a corn maze today. It wasn't ours. How very ironic. Next year I will need to make them aware that they have a student in their school whose family actually runs a maze. And it's right here in town.

The theme of the day was Go Green. We were all to pack a completely disposable lunch. I hear another theme going on here called irony. The kids got to feed the llamas, go on a hay ride, and listen to a lecture on saving the Earth. We didn't go through the maze.

Say it with me: how very ironic.

I liked the lecture myself. *insert much sarcasm* They sat several classes of kindergarteners down and talked to them for an hour on composting and worm casings, on windmills and solar power and how in 20 years they'll be buying houses run by these clean energies, and how styrofoam was the worst stuff ever invented because it will never decompose. (Yep, these are the words they used. I can't make this stuff up.) My very favorite was the talk on reusable tote bags and how the plastic ones fill up landfills. This was just before they handed each child a plastic bag to take their pumpkin home in.

That ranks right up there with the irony of sending home the information sheet on the Go Green theme and asking you to pack the disposable lunch. You know what bothers me? A double standard. Can you tell?

It seems that when a sense of humor freezes over it turns to sarcasm. Today's high was somewhere in the mid 40's. And I only wish that I were kidding.

So today was rather a bust, but thankfully there's still that thing from yesterday that has me grinning like the Cheshire cat every time I think of what may be in tomorrow's mail. Go, Prentke Romich!

Ahem.

Last evening I spent time with the kids. Yeh, awwwww and all that. Our one-year membership to Picture People is about to expire and I am the ultimate slacker mom. We haven't been there since having their pictures done last year. This also means that I had a pocketful of fun freebies to use, and being Cheapest Person on Planet Earth I couldn't let that happen. Plus, there's that thing where they haven't been photographed as a group in a year.

And I know that my patented picture-of-a-picture is less than stellar. But it's all I've got. Someday I may actually spend money *gasp* and get myself a working scanner.