In the Summer, I attended a work event with many of my Twitter friends. At the event, we had stickers of our Twitter avatars that we could collect and trade along with fun social networking business cards. I brought the stickers home and showed the kids. They loved the avatars of my tweetpeeps. They would walk around with "Mommy's Twitter People" for days. Then they lost interest. It wasn't until recently my tweetpeeps would resurface.
Leaving the house with my kids is like leaving the country. We even have to make Jude empty his pockets of all items like and do a security screening before taking him to preschool each morning. Every once in a while if we are in a hurry, he's able to smuggle something by us. Today, when I picked Jude up, I found out what.
As we were leaving preschool, Jude tugged at my coat. "Mommy, Mommy, we fregot my Scooby! Mommy we fregot my Scooby," he kept telling me.
"Jude, you didn't bring your Scooby Doo van today. It's not show-and-tell day," I told him. Someone gave us this kids' meal toy a while back and I had turned it into a security item.
Then one of his teachers told me that they did have to put a toy in his basket. He had apparently smuggled it in his pocket. I reached into his basket, pulled out the van, and found it, but not as it had been when I originally gave it to him.
Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Velma, and Daphne were now accompanied on their ride to preschool with three tweetpeeps: @ndw1, @micala, and @meeshiefeet. Jude took the van back from me and introduced the tweetpeeps to his friends.
So the big mystery is what did @ndw1, @micala, and @meeshiefeet do all day at preschool and which one drove the Mystery Machine?
It just so happens that I am GREAT friends with Velma and she invited me to go on an adventure with the crew. I was actually able to drive the Mystery Machine for a while, but mostly enjoyed just sitting in the back with Shaggy and Scooby. No huge mysteries to solve while I was along, but that's ok with me because the LAST thing I feel like doing at this point in my life is chasing down any ghosts.
Just for the record my favorite part of the preschool day with Jude, Scooby, et. al. was nap time. I think we should institute mandatory nap time every afternoon at work.
Just for the record my favorite part of the preschool day with Jude, Scooby, et. al. was nap time. I think we should institute mandatory nap time every afternoon at work.