Homecoming Spirit Week

This week is basketball homecoming week. Our school is BIG into homecoming activities. We have special "dress-up" themes each day. For example, tomorrow is "camo day", when everyone is going to wear camouflage.

Today's theme was my favorite: "Fake an Injury" Day! Lots of kids have used braces, crutches, bandages, and painted bruises. My daughter and I got really creative! I have a broken heart -- two red heart pieces pinned to my sweater and glitter-glue tears on my face.

My daughter's idea for a fake injury is even more creative. She is wearing a big fuzzy white sweater, fuzzy bear slippers, and we painted three long red "gashes" on her face. Then, we pinned a sign to her jacket -- "Polar Bear: 0".

Spirit Days are so much fun! To me, it doesn't really matter if our teams win or lose. We have had fun celebrating our school spirit nonetheless.

A great book for middle grade kids about friendship and learning more about your community:
The Visconti House by Elsbeth Edgar.

Elk Viewing

The neatest thing about living so close to the Wildlife Refuge is the opportunity to glimpse animals "in the wild". On our way to Lawton yesterday, we saw a herd of 50+ elk grazing right near the City of Lawton sign. That's right off the interstate! Of course, we look every time we go to Lawton, knowing we might see them. Usually, we see deer in that area. But we were rewarded this time!

Just to emphasize the juxtaposition of wild Oklahoma and city Oklahoma: on the way home, we had to stop for about 20 minutes while traffic was rerouted around a massive car accident on Rogers Lane. No elk were involved in the wreck. :) And it looked like the people involved were okay.

Strange how life is like that.

And yes, it did remind me of hitting the deer a month ago. Thank you so much for allowing me NOT to forget that.

Suggested Reading:
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings