Violet’s been real sick the last few days – we didn’t get
flu shots this year, and we’ve seemingly paid for it. It’s been a very flu-y
season. With this bout, she falls asleep and wakes up in a nightmare again and
again all night. She sometimes wakes up still in the dream, inconsolable, for
several minutes. Something about a plane crash and her sister and we need to
find the guard.
When I know hysterical crying could startle me awake at any
second, I give up, throwing on Project Runway or Pawn Stars in the living room,
Violet joining me after her next nightmare. By 4, I know we can probably sleep til 7, when
it’s time for her older sister Daisy to get ready for school.
I’m sick too – not that it matters. When my children are in
need, it’s like a reset button, wiping away the stupid stuff I was obsessing
about yesterday. Selflessness soothes the soul.
But sleeplessness makes you really tired. After picking up
Daisy yesterday, she told me she had joined a club – Uni-squirrel University of
Santa Cruz (UUSC). She went on in some detail before I realized this was an unofficial
club – founded by a fourth grade boy obsessed with a beast that many doubt even
exists – the half unicorn, half squirrel.
My job involves planning activities for students – and I
carry around a bit of guilt that I don’t have enough time to plan my own children’s
activities to the extent that I would like. I know what we could be doing but I’m
not sure how to make it work with a packed work schedule and a split custody
arrangement.
Rest assured that someone at my kid’s school has taken
things into his own capable, and perhaps crazy, hands. Daisy tells me the
president of UUSC is passionate about the uni-squirrel cause and spends most of
the meetings, which occur every day at lunch by a tree, lecturing the other
kids about the history and behavior of uni-squirrels. Daisy says it’s actually
more of a class than a club. There’s homework; UUSC members must learn three
words in uni-squirrel language per day. Full membership in UUSC is earned by consistently
doing the homework and granted in a ceremony where new members lay across the
lawn, stomachs down, while the founder throws clumps of grass on their backs.
I have to say this Uni-squirrel University is well organized.
And it also happens to be timely, as the uni-squirrels are expected to take
over the world any day now. Surely,
those nonbelievers will regret not being able to communicate with our most
important leaders after the uni-squirrel apocalypse.
I’m impressed by how imaginative kids seem to be today. In
my elementary school days, extracurricular learning was something that
might happen when you predicted the end of a compelling Fantasy Island episode or
by pretending to be a banker by sitting in front of a chair, pushing Monopoly money
through the slatted, wooden chairback.
As Daisy was sharing her newfound interest in uni-squirrels,
Violet interrupted, “You should join the Chess Club. I joined it and it’s
really fun. You go to the library at lunch and you can play chess or other
board games with your friends . . .”
My fourth grader is learning a language known only to squirrel unicorns (or is it unicorn squirrels) and my first grader joined a chess club? Good thing I've been reminded
that my most important role is being their mama, because I think they’re
already smarter than me.
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