TAKS - again

Assuming everyone passes, the 5^th graders will be taking the last of the TAKS test for the year today.  This time around is Science.  Two years ago when Sheela first had to sit for these tests I bought her strawberries, blueberries and raspberries to take for her “healthy snack”.  We’ve had them for every test (well, not the raspberries) since.  We forgot to buy them last night when we went to the ice cream parlor next door to the store (Baskin-Robbins birthday celebration – 31cent ice cream cones).  Sheela took the disappointment of not having the TAKS snacks pretty well.  So I ran out this morning and picked them up.  I came in work all pleased with myself for being dedicated to family traditions even though it was awkward until I talked to my friend Carolyn.  Her family tradition, now in it’s four year, is a breakfast buffet.  So she prepares three or four full breakfast meals form which the kids can pick and choose.  This year she’s quite ill (but not with Swine Flu) but still in there doing her best to whip up pancakes, fruit/yoghurt parfaits and quiches with fresh squeezed orange juice for the fourth morning in a row.  She has three kids, each in different grades, taking different tests on different days.  That’s dedication to a tradition (and why its best not to go nuts in the beginning).