For the first time in a few years, the kids are both attending the same school. This time it’s a middle school, and tonight was its open house. They had a weird approach this year, consisting of ten minute segments punctuated by schoolbells. The idea is that the parents and child would go through that child’s schoolday, getting to briefly meet the various teachers and familiarizing themselves with the environment.

Well, great, but what do you do when you’re the only parent and you have two children attending the school? The kids and I scampered all over the place, though we focused primarily on Erica’s schedule and classes, diverting to Alex’s corresponding classes when time permitted.

We did get one good thing out of it. Okay, we got two good, related, things out of it. They fed us, which was nice. They also gave away freezer baggies of leftover pasta and bread slices later on, which we were lucky enough to take advantage of. Yay, we have reheatable foodstuffs for when we’re too lazy to cook up a real meal. Go, us.

I expect that parent-teacher conferences in November will be almost as entertaining. I can wait.