Brown Baggin' It

I survived the white lunch bag drama, sucked it up, and used the brown ones. They turned out cute enough. I was tempted to go to Wal-Mart this afternoon just to see if they had restocked their white lunch bag inventory.

I gave each table hearts to cut out and candy sweethearts, and they wrote various phrases from the candy hearts onto the paper hearts. It started conversations about kissing and girlfriends and I felt like I was teaching the 8th grade or something, but it was all good. They had fun, and even though I dislike the taste of candy hearts my room smelled delicious so I kept the hearts out all day. Excellent air freshener.

After dismissal I had a post-observation meeting with my principal, and when I went into the conference room she had two giant red cabbages sitting on the table. Odd, no? The 4th grade team has some people from 4-H come every Wednesday, and they have vegetable gardens behind the 4th grade classrooms. The gardens are tiny but stuffed full of things like cabbage, cauliflower, tomatoes, and more. Apparently these cabbages were ready to be cut so they gave them to her. She didn't want both, so gave one to me. I got a cabbage from the principal!

It doesn't get more local and organic than that!