Learning Curve

I've heard you learn something every day. Sometimes what you learn is usable; other times it's fluffy trivia. Some is just life experience. Well, here's what I learned yesterday:

• Once a student discovers a live, loose mouse in the classroom and girls scramble on top of their desks while boys crowd into a corner hoping to find and stomp the rodent, not much learning will occur during the remainder of the class period. (perhaps there's an equation for this. Like, Productivity = Focus divided by screams minus general excitement)
• My kids still won't eat (try) sauerkraut. Not even the boy. Not even when I told him it would give him a leg up on next year's German class.
• It's possible to fall asleep sitting upright, watching a favorite laugh-out-loud show, with the fam hooting and giggling all around.

Happy Tuesday -- it's Tacoday at our house, I'm thinkin'.

Autumn Piper
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