Shmucks!

Business partnerships with public schools. Sounds warm and fuzzy, doesn't it?

My kids fill in a reading chart, they get a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. Yay for them. Of course would we ever go to Pizza Hut just for ONE personal pan pizza? Of course not. It would be 5 personal pan pizzas plus something for Glen and I.

A couple of years ago, in rebellion, I just stopped filling out those reading charts. We read together every day anyway and I don't need a chart to prove it. [I'm rebellious like that a lot you know].

So here's a new one I didn't see coming. A few days ago we got a letter home from school saying that Emma's artwork has been specially chosen to adorn the local McDonalds for the month and here's a coupon for a free ice cream cone.

Whoa! Specially chosen? Our daughter's destined to be a famous artist?! Like the doting parents that we are, we secretly started planning Emma's future career path, whilst Emma started going crazy with curiosity at which piece of her artwork received this high acclaim.

So what did we do?

We morphed into total shmucks, that's what we did.

On the bright side Emma was ecstatic to find out that it was her ice cream cone shaped ice cream shop that had won the honor of adorning Mickey D's wall for the next few weeks and I got to blog instead of cleaning the kitchen tonight.

PLUS...(see below)