Finding the Inner Snack Lady

Don't you just hate people who won't update their blogs? I don't know what my problem is lately.

Last week was VBS. I feel awful even saying this but I am super glad it's over. I was a crewleader for the second graders and well, let's just leave it at that. God has shown me before that teaching a class of school age children is NOT where I should be serving him. 'Bout time I started listening, I think.

To make matters worse on Thursday morning about 7:30 A.M. literally as I was walking down the hall I began to break out in a rash. It started on my forearms and by the time the second graders and I were in Bible Blast it had spread to my legs and the tops of my feet. How do I contract this bizarre crap? Anyway, I tell our Head Crewleader that I am jumping ship for the day and gather my own children and head home for Benedryl. I passed out for the afternoon after the Benedryl took effect and hoped for the best. Not exactly what I got.

Still had the rash on Friday and Saturday and all of my joints started hurting at some point on Friday. Oh goodie. Still don't know what the heck it was but it's mostly gone now. Anyway, enough about that.

The kids had a good time at VBS, I guess. We had several "challenging" children and that makes it more difficult on all the other kids. The hard part for me is that these kids are usually "drop-offs". In other words, we're their parents free babysitters for the week. I am always in awe of people who take advantage that way. And why do they do it? Just because they can? It gets really frustrating when the kids start commenting that they already did the craft at such-and-such church or such-and-such-church did different motions to the song. Thanks random strangers who drop off your challenging children at every available VBS in town. Appreciate ya.

Eh, I don't want to be totally negative about the whole thing. But truly, I felt pretty negative about the whole thing this time around. Perhaps I have reached VBS retirement? It's pretty bad that I hope that's true.

Nah, I just need to go back to being snack lady. At Selden, I did snacks. That, I am good at. Making fake sushi out of cream cheese and tortillas is easy-cheesy compared to spending the day with challenging children. Fake sushi and I can get along. Me and the second graders, not always.

My last year at Selden we did a Treasure Island theme and I made all the kids treasure chests out of graham crackers and icing and filled them with candy. I had a good time that year. Sometimes I really miss Selden, VBS time especially it seems.

Yes, definitely need to be snack lady. There are many benefits of that job. No one else wants to do it, so no one bothers you. You are in charge because you're doing all the work anyway. And, you get to leave early. Yes. Really need to go back to that job.