Curiosity

Dash was off school today, for teacher training, or teacher teambuilding, or teacher coffeedrinking, or whatever it is those lucky teachers get to do on the days when they have to go to school but their little darlings don't. He was very good about not mentioning it to Mabel this morning, because I knew that once she twigged that he was staying home but she wasn't, there'd be mutiny. Somehow, she didn't really notice that he wasn't yet dressed as I took her off to nursery school, and disaster was averted.

Dash and I went to the thrift store and the supermarket and treated ourselves to a Starbucks as a reward. Over chocolate milk and lemon cake (latte and cinnamon bun for me), we discussed topics as far-flung as where people get married if they don't go to church, the duty of men to take equal responsibility for contraception, and how many people he knows who speak Welsh.

In Mabel's quest for knowlege later this afternoon (while her brother was out wielding the lightsaber against Mace Windu from across the street*), she had me reading her the Body Book, the How Babies Are Made page of the Book of Knowledge, and finally leafing through the (adult) first-aid book to tell her what was wrong with all the people in the pictures.

I think that's plenty of larnin' for a no-school day.


* When Dash calls on his friend to come out and play lightsabers, the friend suits up in his Halloween costume for the full effect. He's method, man.