100th Day of School

Today was Josiah's 100th day of school, and he was pretty excited about it since he is so into numbers.  Since I'm into being the world's laziest mother, I didn't remember about this momentous day until last night.  The note sent home last week asked us to send a baggie full of something edible from a list (Josiah specifically requested choc. chips) and the part that I failed to notice when I read the note originally... 100 objects collected and presented in a creative way.  Yikes!  Last night I quickly brainstormed and asked Jo if he wanted to bring 100 marbles or 100 pom-poms.  He replied pom-poms, and I debated about how to display them, and then promptly forgot about it until this morning 15 minutes before the bus arrived.

Len helpfully suggested that I string them together, which I agreed was cool, but how could I do that in 15 minutes, plus pack all of his normal school paraphernalia?  The answer... not possible.  I strung pom-poms as fast as I could, and Len dressed Josiah as fast as an easily distracted 6 year old can dress, but I still failed to get his 100 items "artfully collected," not to mention the rest of his daily bag attended to.  After some yelling and serious stress over a not so serious situation, we got Josiah on the bus WITHOUT any of his needed items.  With much assistance from my happy-to-help assistant, we finished getting his special 100 objects displayed and the rest of his bag packed.  I took an extra trip into town, which of course is really no big deal.

Hmmmm.... serve one for Kindergarten, 0 for mom.