Sissy’s team won the Academic Decathlon. \u00a0And now they go to Nationals in California. But first? \u00a0They were allowed to wear their medals – each kid on the team earned at least three during the competition – to school the Monday after the big win.<\/p>\n
As I say: If you got ’em, wear ’em! \u00a0(I actually say: If you got \u2018em, drink \u2018em.\u00a0 But not everyone was in the military and would understand the reference.\u00a0 Also, a comment like that is\u00a0highly inappropriate for this blog, so you can keep that to yourself.)\u00a0 As I also say: If you EARNED ’em, wear ’em.\u00a0 And these kids earned them, diligently preparing for six months straight with study sessions four mornings a week before school, on Sunday nights and even during school breaks! \u00a0God bless these kids.\u00a0 Wear those medals loud and proud, you deserve it!\u00a0 And I\u2019m not even joking when I say loud.\u00a0 Because when Sissy went off to school on Medal Monday, she sounded like she was wearing a suit of armor. \u00a0Clunk, clankclank. \u00a0Clunkety clankclunk.<\/p>\n
What did Sissy think about the whole thing? She said she finally understood how the dog felt.\u00a0 All the medals on her neck reminded her of the tags on the dog\u2019s collar that jingle and jangle at every step.<\/p>\n
Speaking of dogs\u2026and tags\u2026<\/p>\n
One time when it was our first dog and we had no kids, I came home from work and couldn’t find the dog anywhere. \u00a0Usually the dog would spend all day napping in the front hall, but when I looked for him there, all I found was an empty front hall and a gaping hole in the floor where the air conditioning vent grate belonged. Hmmm, weird. <\/em><\/p>\n After calling and calling the dog’s name, he finally appeared at the top of the stairs with his tail tucked and the vent grate hanging from his collar. Wha\u2019up, wha\u2019up Thuggy D?! Gangsta in da house!!<\/em><\/p>\n Apparently, the dog had been sleeping on the nice cool air coming out of the vent. But when he got up from his nap, the rabies tags on his collar lodged in the grate and it got pulled up too.\u00a0 I can\u2019t even imagine what crazy squirreling around must have ensued as he tried to ditch his new three pound Def Jam Playaz Circle necklace before he finally called it quits and hid upstairs from the madness, with\u00a0Mr. T.\u00a0still going on around his neck.<\/p>\n Yep, I can still picture the dog standing at the top of the stairs with the vent grate hanging from his neck. And if I squint hard enough with\u00a0my mind\u2019s eye, you know what it looks like?\u00a0 It looks almost like an Academic Decathlon medal.\u00a0 Or three.<\/p>\n Congrats, Sissy and Team. California here you come!!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sissy’s team won the Academic Decathlon. \u00a0And now they go to Nationals in California. But first? \u00a0They were allowed to wear their medals – each kid on the team earned at least three during the competition – to school the Monday after the big win. As I say: If you got ’em, wear ’em! \u00a0(I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4409,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4407\/revisions\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}