Schools

Once a few years ago, I was asking some sibs which schools they went to, and we ended up making a chart (which I've sinced lost) recording who went to which school for which grades.  Mom helped fill in the blanks/sibs who weren't present.

Let's do that again - I remember it being surprisingly cool.  Maybe someone (Karl?) would make it up graphically somehow.

So mine goes like this:

most of K - Salem Elementary
rest of K - half of 2nd - John F Kennedy Elem.
rest of 2 - 5th - Two Rock
half of 6th - Olive
rest of 6th - Hamilton
7 - 8th - San Jose Middle School
9 - 12th - Mcdonough

Now add yours, and we'll put them together somehow.

Paper Bag Parade

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I've been thinking about Halloween costumes for my kids, so let's talk Halloween:  For those of you who went to Two Rock (sorry, Karl), what did you make your paper bag into for the paper bag parade?  Also, did you like that idea, or not?

I always wanted to wear my regular Halloween costume, since Mom made awesome ones, but I appreciated the creativity aspect, and Mom said it was to level the playing field, with the migrant worker kids that went there, so I was cool with it.

I remember being:

A cabbage patch kid (looked like Merlina, with a pacifier and stuff)
A gypsy (won that year)
A computer... that was also a red sox fan (I finished too early, so I kept adding stuff)

Note the floppy disc drive and the disc storage thing above it!
and oh my goodness, I think I'm holding a cord!

I remember a kid in my class winning with this awesome fly costume one year, and I think that same kid was a toilet once - with a houseplant and a roll of tp and everything.  It was awesome.  One kid was always a peacock, because he could get peacock feathers at his house.

I'm betting Karl would have been something sports related... or a plain paper bag. :)