As everyone knows I'm a kindergarten aide. Today at work, we had an emergency evacuation drill. On the surface this sounds like a great idea. Everyone should be prepared. But in case you don't know, we had a little snow this morning. It was also pretty cold at nine in the morning. Have you ever tried to walk a group of 25 kindergarten kids up a street, across a field and into a stadium, all the time keeping them quiet? All of this while the snowflakes are falling? I was going to write this blog today as a heads up to parents, caretakers, anyone that is in charge of a child to always send them to school prepared with the proper coat, hat, mittens, scarf but then I began to think about the whole emergency evacuation thing. It grabbed at my heart to think that here are a group of children that were more worried about catching snowflakes on their tongues than in quietly walking in formation. What happened to the world where little children have to prepare to evacuate a building instead of jumping in a pile of leaves? Don't think for one minute we could just tell them we were taking a walk. Kindergarteners are born investigative reporters. I swear they invented who, what, when, where, why, and how. Its an endless progression of questions. This whole thought of walking to a stadium to be a sitting duck just turns my stomach.
Ah well, thats why I prefer to turn to my bulldog. He is smart enough not to let anything bother him. He won't lose one wink of sleep. Bruiser will always believe what I tell him, he will always light up when I come home from work. I wish all of you could meet him or get to know any bulldog. They are natural born clowns and just what this world can use.
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