Kiss My Knits!

Looks like Emily made it back to school just in time! I just got this note from her teacher:

“We are having a school wide spelling bee on Friday morning at 8:15. Each 3-5 teacher held a small spelling bee in classrooms this week to determine who will represent in the big school wide spelling bee. We held our spelling bee this morning and Emily won! On Friday she will have to stand in front of the whole school on stage with other classroom winners and participate in a spelling bee. I have talked to her about what will happen on that day and she says she wants to do it.”

WOO! That’s my baby! Even sick she’s a chip off the old block. Everybody on the internet can take heart that when she finally joins our ranks, there will be one less person posting who confuses they’re, their, and there.

Tomorrow, her class is having “Read and Relax” day. The kids can bring pajamas to change into at school, as well as one stuffed animal. Adults will be coming in to read. I’m not sure I’ll be able to, it’ll depend on the Jayne hats, but I’ll assess that tonight. What I will be doing is bringing in 20 cupcakes, which Emily apparently volunteered me to do. Fortunately they have to be store-bought and sealed, so I don’t have to cook. Heh.

Question! If you were going to read a short book or story to a bunch of eight year olds, what would you choose?

Superman Doomsday wasn’t bad, but some of Superman’s dialogue was a bit stilted. I’m sure it’s tough getting all the technobabble in there. On to Ocean’s Eleven – the remake. I’ve seen the original, and I’m not expecting fantastic things from this, but we’ll see. One more Jayne hat down, 30 to go!

Emily’s back in school. She got up and took her own temperature and reported to us what it was. She’s still sniffling and coughing, but I don’t think she’s contagious and she really, really wants to get back to school. She says her friends miss her. I’ll bet she’s right.

Email to jaynehat.com is still getting through only sporadically. This is troublesome, because I just ordered a thousand more business cards with that address (thanks again for Li’l Jayne, ). The first set of cards went fast. The next set will be double-sided, with care info on the reverse.

The DNS issues with our various sites should be resolved soon. I worry that someone who ordered two months ago will try to write me and it’ll bounce, and that person will think I’ve vanished. Let’s keep a happy thought and hope that doesn’t happen.

I had planned to make a long post this morning about visiting my in-laws and how I taught all the kids in the family to finger-knit, or more accurately, to finger-crochet. Then I suddenly realized that I had neglected to make a Christmas gift for my kid’s teacher. So now I need to have three hats and a pair of Fuzzyfeet finished by Friday. This isn’t counting the packages that need to go out. So much for the long post. Maybe if I make good time this morning, or if Em stays in school all day, I’ll have time for more fun stuff.

On tap next: watching Superman Doomsday and knitting like the wind!