Friday, October 24, 2008

RIP Mike (the crab)

This post will probably only be amusing (albeit in a sick way) to my immediate family, but for those who choose to continue reading, I offer this background info. My brother's name is Mike and he has a 5 year old daughter named Lilly. Lilly is a little spitfire, and I see the potential for her to be a major handful in coming years. Now, onto the story.

Ryan had two hermit crabs as his class pets. The class named them Mike and Lilly. Ryan had nothing to do with this, he would never honor his cousin in any way. Yesterday, the children arrived in class to find that Mike had passed on to that great hermit heaven in the sky. The class concluded that there had been a fight and Lilly had killed Mike, as his limbs were strewn about the cage. Foreshadowing anyone? I did tell you the story was amusing, but sick.

Onto another subject, Sam is doing a project on his family heritage for school. He had to pick a culture from his ethnic background and write about it, as well as provide an item to present to the class. Sam chose Italy. He wants to bring a food item for the class to try. My dilemma is that the food has to be store bought (system requirement) and cannot contain peanuts or tree nuts. We thought of Italian Wedding cookies, biscotti, and Nutella spread, but can't find any in stores without nuts. Anyone have any ideas. Please leave a comment on this post to help us out (c'mon Aunt Betty, I know your out there!)

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