Makes sense to Start School MId-Summer

     No people, I'm not saying year long school. What I am saying is the summer months are too long for many kids to be away from school. Not all as many kids can do just fine with all summer off.
     But doesn't it make sense to give kids more time off in winter around the holidays? Instead of ten to twelve days away, let it go from December twentieth to the end of February. Then if you are a person who is lucky enough to be a stay at home parent and if you traditionally celebrate Christmas with younger kids, look how much time they have to play, spend more winter time, outdoors riding a new bike too.
    Since we have less daylight hours in winter and kids are brought in earlier because of the dark, which means less outdoor time, less outdoor exercise. Kids need that outdoor time. Also in summer with school, they have a/c for half  a day, and half of that day is used up in school with plenty of daylight left to play outdoors. Come on parents, let's start something here. :) Hey one more thing, you know how too many people are picking up on SAD, Seasonal affective disorder?  Yeah, I watched Northern Exposure too.
Well more home time, less winter school time would take care of that!

How Do Vikings Communicate ?

       By Norse code.  So what is Norse code? By the way that little dittie came about from hanging out with a couple of little guys until yesterday when they had to go home from respite. Once they saw my Norwegian plaid blog, they wanted to know, what's a Norwegian? So I explained and then we talked about Vikings and the younger one who was here before asked about my viking hat. I wish it was real, but no, just plastic, yet I have a lot of fun with it especially when serious meaning people come here. I open the door with my viking hat on and smile, say come in with a Norwegian accent, and yes an imitated one, but one I've heard over the years growing up.
       Then we talk about the colors. Just like the Irish love green I loved Red, White and Blue and we all know that covers both sides. The older boy looked through my books of which I have many, and found my viking book, asked if he could look at it and saw a big, big Viking dressed in all his Viking wear. He asked me if I dress like that too-funny little kid. He saw those Viking commercials and said to me well, ladies like to dress that way, and so next time he visits, I will have found some kind of Viking dress, a spear, breastplate, a long braided wig
and I'll grow a beard.
       It's a nice night for ship carving so off to my Viking basement.