Picnic Time

With about 25 days left of school, the end-of-year rush is beginning.  Today it was the school picnic, mainly the thrill of eating outside with your family.  We brought blankets and sandwiches from our local Italian deli, plus cookies, and sat under the shade.  The kids had ordered "bbq"--which was hot dogs, pasta salad, chips, carrots, watermelon, and orangeade or fruit punch.  Amazing how excited they can get about a hot dog!  Eaten outside!  Too bad they can't eat outside everyday and then run around the playground.  Usually, they finish eating in just minutes and have to sit there for 30 minutes total.  Of course, in this day and age when kids have to have something to do all the time and can't be left to their own imaginations, they are given coloring sheets and word searches to pass this time.  I think we actually talked to our friends, made up our own games!  So it was doubly nice that, after all the rain and damp,coloring pages and word searches, they got to play outside some.