are you hungry?

i've never been into the hunger games.  

i know, it's a huge fad.  but i was on my mission when it got big.  

and when i got back i just never got into them.  

i saw the first movie by repeated request of my sisters

and was totally mortified by it.  

i pledged to never read the books and never pay to see any of the other movies.  yuck.

then, i was at the dentist last week and clint said he was showing it 2 days early. 

i like bragging rights as much as the next person, so i decided to go.  

hah!  so i paid $20 for a movie i didn't even want to see 2 days before it hit theaters.  

and secretly, i loved it.  thought i don't agree with or understand the story line,

i will say the movies are incredibly well made.  i'm no movie critic by any means, 

but i do get bored sitting for too long in many movies, and this one kept my attention 

t h e . w h o l e . t i m e . 

today there is this little parody floating around the world wide web.  

just too cute not to share:  

who doesn't love a little sesame street, right?  

this shouldn't happen until age 50

so i had a colonoscopy today.  i started writing out the details of how miserable it is, but then i realized how graphic it was becoming, and decided to censor that one real quick.   let me just say that i am SO SO SOOOOOO grateful i don't have to deal with that experience again for 25 more years.  *shudder*

that was anticlimactic.

i'm a little disappointed to report that friday, they day of the big wedding came... and went... without any hurrah.  not one child even mentioned the wedding!  the closest i came to hearing anything about it was a little girl that brought high heels and asked when she should change into them.  were they so caught up in the thanksgiving festivities that they forgot all about the wedding?  or did it happen at recess when i wasn't around? 

i was speaking to a parent that came in for the feast and casually asked if she had heard about the wedding.  "heard about it?" she replied.  "it's all (insert her child's name here) can talk about.  she said she is in charge of the rings and wanted to borrow mine..."  bahaha. 

good thing they have 9 days of thanksgiving break to forget about the whole thing. 

it's a wedding...?

first grade is absolutely THE best place for me.  i adore my children.  i adore my job and really can't believe i ever doubted for a moment that this was what i wanted to spend the rest of my life doing.  i wish i took more time to write everything down that they say, or things that happen everyday because honestly THEY KILL ME.  especially when they are so set on something that is absolute bologna.  

anyway.  last week we read this story called "foolish ray".  it was a play, so i had different kids come up and act the story out while they were reading.  at one part in the story, foolish ray gets married to this girl sadie.  the two kids that were playing foolish ray and sadie, we'll call them bobby and jane, took it so seriously and couldn't stop laughing about the fact that they were six and were getting married. later that day, during our free write, jane wrote, "i'm getting married today and i hate it!"  then drew a picture of a very sad bride and an eager looking husband, labeled "foolish ray".  then we all dropped it.  

or so i thought.  

yesterday, bobby's friend we'll call paxton shows up to school with these round glasses and a little notebook that he's copiously scribbilng in all day.  i finally ask what it is and he said, "i'm preparing a speech for the wedding!"  "what wedding?"  "bobby and jane's wedding.  it's on friday, and they've asked me to be the preacher."  

what.  

ok, still didn't think much of it.  

but then it keeps getting brought up.  "bobby and jane are getting married on friday."  "are you excited for the wedding on friday?"  "what are you wearing to the wedding on friday, miss ence?"  etc. etc.  i sat down with jane and bobby separately and asked what all this was about.  bobby was not amused.  jane had cooked all this up on her own, asking paxton to be the preacher and arranged everything else, including a best man, bridesmaids, and someone to do her cake and flowers.  WHAT.  firstly, how does she know all this about wedding planning?  secondly, WHY.  we are six!!!!  

amidst my chuckles during all this, i talked to the class about "the wedding", saying it wasn't going to happen on friday and that 6 is way too young to have to worry about anything like that anyway.  but the talk didn't stop!  every conversation, someone brings up the wedding.  even as i'm reading the spelling words for the test this morning and i said the word "make" - then the sentence "i'm going to make a cake after school today."  someone raised their hand and in all seriousness asked if it was the cake for jane's wedding.  

{ as we were sitting working on a work book today and someone asked jane if she was nervous for the wedding tomorrow, another girl cut in and said, "there should be no wedding.  you can't get married until you are 13!!!"  bahahah.  i'm a few years behind, i guess. } 

we have free dress day tomorrow because it's the end of the term, and as today came to a close, the little ones started telling me of the nice dresses and ties they'd picked out for the wedding tomorrow, and the "best man" was so excited to wear his yellow bow tie to school.  seriously?? do they really think this is happening???  we're having a mock thanksgiving feast tomorrow but they're now all calling it the wedding feast.  OH NO. 

i had a nice chat with the whole class before school let out, but i'm almost certain little jane will come to school tomorrow dressed like a bride and who knows, maybe i'll be the flower girl.  

NOT.