Exchange rate

The exchange rate in this household is, well, let's just say it doesn't favor the house. Miss C and Little J have been interested in having a $20 bill and have tried every which way to Sunday to get one without having to actually "exchange" $20 of their own money for it. They have quite a few $1 bills and coins that they have collected over the years....all amounting to just a little over $20. I think they understand that they have to exchange their money to get that $20 bill, but they fall short on realizing that you have to exchange $20 to get $20. Miss C has protested on several occasions that if she exchanges all her money for that $20 bill, she won't have any money left over. Silly girl. She is having a hard time conceptualizing that 20 $1 bills is the same as 1 $20 bill. Well, at least I'm guessing she is having a hard time conceptualizing it. Who knows, she could just be bamboozling us. So she's laid the full court press on trying to negotiate only giving us 5 or 10 $1 bills to get that $20 so that she still has money left over. She's even resorted to counting the coins and trying to figure out the perfect combination of dollars and coins to make that $20 so she has some of each left over. She just came up to me and handed me $3 dollar bills and 16 pennies and 1 dime and told me that she was ready to get that $20. Man, the exchange rate has really plummeted! The dollar is hardly worth anything in this house! After about 30 minutes of going back and forth, we finally negotiated 15 $1 bills and 20 quarters. She seemed satisfied with that because she still has 5 $1 bills left and a handful of coins....and that shiny new $20 bill!

wishing snow

So we have done all we can around here to wish for snow tomorrow.  The kids really, really, really want to see snow.  The last time there was a chance (which never happened) the teachers assistant in Miss C's class told them to all wear their pajamas backwards.  We didn't do it that night, and there was no snow the next day.  I had two very disappointed little children.  We aren't taking any chances this time around.  The forecast is calling for a wintery mix tomorrow so tonight we sleep with our jammies inside out.  I also read that if you put a spoon under your pillow and an ice cube in the toilet, your chances of snow dramatically increase.  So instead of sugarplums dancing in our heads, we'll have visions of snow flurries instead.