I like your Big!Boss more than I expect to.

What, God hates everybody in Pennsylvania now?

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All this talk of murder and mayhem - it's making me feel way safer about living in Foreign Parts. I mean, I feel a lot safer here than I did in London from the point of view of random mugging/murder/rape what have you, and only marginally more nervous about terrorism. So that's good.

Today my kids had The Best Maths Lesson ever. We made peppermint creams. (We're doing weights and measures this week.) I had 20 kids in various stages of coated-in-sugar who were just incredulous at being allowed to spend their maths lesson making stuff that they could eat!!!

For homework we're practicing Following Instructions (Instructional texts being one of our literacy topics) and weights and measures: they're making 'chocolate huffpuffs'. Bless. Go team kids.

I wish I'd had Fay as my teacher. Chocolate was never involved in my maths, damnit.

What's a huffpuff?

What, God hates everybody in Pennsylvania now?

Just the people who don't vote republican.

I don't know what peppermint creams or chocolate huffpuffs are but I want some. Now.

My point is, he said "That's a blue state, isn't it?" as if you shouldn't patronize any blue-state business, Christian-owned or not.

Steph, you should move to Seattle just so you can join Saint Marks, because it's awesome.

Raquel did look far too attractive to have just given birth. Curse her!

I need to strap the baby in the carseat so that I can shower. Right now, I'm totally seeing the appeal of the baby papasans, and am planning on getting one posthaste, as I lack a place to set the baby in a semi-upright position while I Do Stuff.

Did he like the plush flesh-eating virus?

We just ordered it yesterday, and plan to have a group presentation next week. I'm sure he'll dig it.

I like your Big!Boss more than I expect to.

I have got to give the man props. He's mentally as sharp as ever, so he knows damn well that I'm no longer the church-y type, and therefore was damn well aware of that when he jumped in to get my back.

What, God hates everybody in Pennsylvania now?

I know, right? I think Church!Guy's implication was -- how DARE a "good Christian" like Big!Boss give his business to a godless heathen state.

Assmunch.

Well, we read Mr Wolf's Pancakes a while ago, and then this week we read Mr Wolf and the Three Bears. In the latter, Mr Wolf and his grandma prepare Baby Bear's birthday party dinner, but Goldielocks gatecrashes and wrecks everything. Goldielocks ends up in a pie. The book includes recipes for all the things that Mr Wolf and his grandmother made (including the pie).

edited to add:

ion, Church!Guy? What a twat.

It's odd hearing about people's experiences of living in a religious country. I mean, that kind of 'Yay Church!' attitude is something you just never encounter in Britain. It's something most people would find distinctly embarrassing and freakish - like saying you're a Train spotter, or write Gay Vampire Snuff Porn, or something. Weird. And of course here I'm in a society which is saturated with godliness, and signifiers of worship. But I've not had people being shitty to me about my own religion, as it happens. (Or, you know, agnostisim. Which isn't really a concept people often grasp here.)

Chocolate Huffpuffs are actually just rice crispie cakes - you know, where you get some cereal and some melted chocolate and mix them up and refrigerate them.