“Mrs. Basi!” yells Kindergarten Carpool child, upon leaping into the van after school. “Do you want to have a SNOW DAY tomorrow???!!!!”
“No, I do not,” I reply.
Undeterred, he shouts, “You have to put an ICE CUBE in the TOILET and let it melt! And then you flush it!”
“Uh….okay.”
Nicholas leaps into the van, spread-eagled with enthusiasm. “Mom, mom, you know how to make a snow day??????????????!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Nope, how?”
“You put your TOOTHBRUSH under your PILLOW!”
“No, you don’t, you put your SPOON under your pillow!” shouts Kindergarten Carpool.
“My teacher told me TOOTHBRUSH!” yells Nicholas.
“Well, the REAL way is a SPOON. And you know what else? You put an ice cube in the toilet and wait for it to melt! And then you flush it. But if you don’t flush it, your toilet will overflow!”
“So if we want a BIG snow day, we should dump our whole BUCKET of ice from the freezer in the toilet!”Nicholas is problem-solving hard now. “Mom, can we put our whole bucket in? We can always make more!”
Methinks the elementary teachers are having fun with the kidlets. 🙂 As I’m going to have fun with you now, because seriously, a photo like this has to be used, even if it has nothing to do with, well, anything at all.
Kathleen M. Basi 
Obviously you needed to consult your teacher-sister before writing this blog. I feel that I personally must inform your children that they missed acouple: the orange in the freezer and the PJ’s on backwards (or inside out).
This is so random. I’ve never heard of any of these before…when did this mythology spring up? Clearly sometime between my childhood and now!
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:34 PM, Kathleen M. Basi wrote:
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