Mother of six

 I know several women who are mothers of six children.  They're pretty much unconquerable.  I think you about have to be.

One of my students had a birthday and his mother (she's a mother of six) dropped off treats.  She brought donuts, neatly cut in two.  She brought two plastic gloves for passing out donuts and a stack of napkins. She brought a gf cookie in a ziplock bag for my student with celiac. 

I mean, I would follow this woman into battle!

After school I talked on the phone with one of my room mothers.  The other room mother can't come to the Valentine's Day party, so this room mother had talked to the mother of six about helping.  (She usually doesn't come to parties because she has a little one at home still.)  The mother of six gave my room mother an idea that she'd done before with one of her other kids.

Here's the idea:

You move all the desks.  You get squares of waxed paper.  The kids stand on the waxed paper and "ice skate" around the room.

She said when she did it for a class party before, they skated for 45 minutes and had a marvelous time.

I had so many questions.

"How does the wax paper attach to the shoes?"

Apparently it doesn't need to, they just stand on it.

We decided we'd be real sticklers about people staying in control so no one gets hurt and we decided to have bingo and some coloring pages in our back pockets in case the idea doesn't work.

But I think it will work.  I'll put my money on a mother of six.

Those ladies are amazing.