Morning.
I got Em to school a few minutes late this morning. She’s very self-motivated and gets ready quite well on her own, she just did everything a few minutes later than usual today. I signed her in at the office and she went straight to the media center instead of to her class. Late for the first day of work! Unfortunately, she gets that from me. Oh well.
Even though we were running a little late, Em did ask me to put her hair in a high ponytail, and she did put on earrings. Em doesn’t actually have pierced ears, but I have some stick-on bindis leftover from my booth at Simucon a few years ago. She has taken to sticking them to her earlobes. Voila! Instant earrings.
We mentioned to Em that the president was going to be speaking today through the internet to their class. Em figured that “It must be about the multiplication sundaes!” That’s the level of importance that the sundaes have to her. The president is going to address the nation about them. Or, as my husband says, that’s the level of importance the president has – he’s been elevated in her mind to speaking about something as important as the precious sundaes.
I suppose it’s possible that Em will be the lead-in to the president. Again, my husband points out that that should be nationally, not just schoolwide. I’ll bet if the parents objecting to the speech knew that in addition to hearing Obama, they’d get to hear Em, they’d change their tune. Of course I will admit that it is remotely possible that as Em’s mother, I have a slightly inflated sense of her importance on the national political scene. Maybe. Possibly.
I can hear it now… “My fellow ice creamericans…”