okay maybe I will keep you.

[gfrancie]

Of course Senor Onion had a good day at school. I did briefly chat with his teacher and I will likely talk to her more tomorrow when I am volunteering. He and I did have a chat about things he could do instead of having an outburst. I gave him a few options of how to approach things. If he isn't ready to go and play he can politely say, "I'd rather sit for now". I reminded him that things are better this year since he doesn't have to deal with the difficult child. I also told him that it is very important to help tidy up at the end and coming home early from preschool isn't fun for anyone.

He was a bit disappointed that his favorite friend Lulu was still out with a cold. He was pretty pragmatic when he said, "I can still play with Vincent. He's my old friend. Lulu is my new friend" Though he ended up playing at the water table all morning with Sam. They played a game that Sam referred to as "Erie Canal". Something that made me feel a little better about things was when a little girl in his class said to me, "I like playing with Senor Onion. He is always nice to me."
So there you go. The ladies like him. It probably helps that he is happy to play picnic and will make tea for Lulu.

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I am reading this delightfully entertaining book called, "Operation Mincemeat" about some brilliant war-time espionage put forth by British intelligence. One of the people who worked on it was Ian Fleming and all the detail created for the operation does smack of James Bond. It is a fairly light book and a great deal of fun. All the tiny things the people had to think of to make something so believable is genius. Then you have the whole story of What was going on in Spain and the constant game being played by the Germans, the British and the Spanish. There were so many agents at work that I wonder if there was anyone in Spain not working in intelligence? The truly grand thing about this entire operation was that it in the end it caused the Germans to think a number of important documents that fell into their hands were like Mincemeat and so they didn't take it seriously (when in reality they had their hands on some information that was to their advantage) and made them absolutely paranoid of being caught with their pants down again.
The British were truly at their best when it came to collecting intelligence and coming up with the most wild ideas for fighting the enemy on a covert level.

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[bliss-street.livejournal.com]

A copy of that book is currently resting near the top of my ever-growing "to be read" pile.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

You will enjoy this. It is hilarious and so wild. The things they thought of crack me up. Even the people who worked in intelligence were characters themselves. You can TOTALLY see where Fleming got some of the people.