Happy Remembrance Day
For some reason C & M's school seems very concerned with safety.
It started with the public health nurse - for the next few days all five kids were really concerned about properly washing their hands to get rid of the germs, to the point where we were worrying about obsessive compulsiveness. Hands had to be washed a certain way and if not you had to start again.
Then came the firefighters - for a week the C would not stop worrying about the state of our smoke detectors, M kept showing me the fire sign on labels, we measured where the kids could be in relation to the stove, and M proudly announced how she would not hide in the closet if there was a fire but stay low to stay away from the smoke.
And just in time for Halloween - the police came in to talk about potential poison in their treats, the need for flashlights while walking. The kids didn't want to go out until I went to the store to get damn reflective tape for their costumes.
So I wasn't too surprised when I picked the kids up yesterday and asked how their day went and M said that the veterinarians showed up. I could just imagine them scaring the kids silly with stories of rabid drooling dogs. But the 5 kids said they didn't talk about that.
Me:"so what did they talk about?"
M: "they said nothing"
Me: nothing?
M: no they sat there
at this point I am imagining someone with humane society dogs showing them off and telling the kids horror stories of maltreatment while the local vets sit there just in case.
Me: so let me guess - you sat there and they sat there and you just stared at each other?
M: no we clapped for them
......
and then I remembered - it is Remembrance day on Saturday and those weren't silent veterinarians but veterans sitting on stage watching the remembrance day pagent and getting a round of applause.
It started with the public health nurse - for the next few days all five kids were really concerned about properly washing their hands to get rid of the germs, to the point where we were worrying about obsessive compulsiveness. Hands had to be washed a certain way and if not you had to start again.
Then came the firefighters - for a week the C would not stop worrying about the state of our smoke detectors, M kept showing me the fire sign on labels, we measured where the kids could be in relation to the stove, and M proudly announced how she would not hide in the closet if there was a fire but stay low to stay away from the smoke.
And just in time for Halloween - the police came in to talk about potential poison in their treats, the need for flashlights while walking. The kids didn't want to go out until I went to the store to get damn reflective tape for their costumes.
So I wasn't too surprised when I picked the kids up yesterday and asked how their day went and M said that the veterinarians showed up. I could just imagine them scaring the kids silly with stories of rabid drooling dogs. But the 5 kids said they didn't talk about that.
Me:"so what did they talk about?"
M: "they said nothing"
Me: nothing?
M: no they sat there
at this point I am imagining someone with humane society dogs showing them off and telling the kids horror stories of maltreatment while the local vets sit there just in case.
Me: so let me guess - you sat there and they sat there and you just stared at each other?
M: no we clapped for them
......
and then I remembered - it is Remembrance day on Saturday and those weren't silent veterinarians but veterans sitting on stage watching the remembrance day pagent and getting a round of applause.
posted by ayearinhalifax | 5:47 PM
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