Monday, March 05, 2007

Procrastinators Anonymous

All information necessary to complete International Projects sent home by elementary teachers: December 19, 2006

Due date: Monday, March 5, 2007

Projects begun by our family for both students: Saturday night, March 3rd at 8:00pm and continued through 11:30pm.

Number of trips to the store: 2

Number of bags of popcorn to fend off late-night starvation: 3

Number of videos to keep littlest brother happy while we worked: 2

Number of family members necessary to complete projects: 7

Number of meltdowns by unnamed son with project due: 5

Number of burns by glue gun: 3

Number of times over three months Dad said "We have plenty of time!": 495

Projects completed: Sunday, March 4, 2007, right before bedtime.

Having the whole family work together late into the night to bail siblings out of a homework "pickle": PRICELESS!!






2 comments:

Natalie said...

I like the Aussie one the best...

But I'm biased!

Unknown said...

NATALIE!! How are you?! I should have consulted you with questions we had. They have to dress in native clothing and make regional food for their country tomorrow. Fun! (ugh.)