Requiring Reformation

Gotcha! 😉 Bet you thought this was going to be a politics or possibly religion article. Instead thought I’d offer a humorous piece (though still interwoven with my thoughts in general as you will find…).

Things to be reformed or possibly eradicated:

1. The way you are supposed to open refrigerated canned biscuits and cinnamon rolls. 🥐Do you know what I’m taking about? Maybe you are all home bakers and do not lower yourselves to this quick breakfast fix to feeding hungry kiddos. My mom was a master baker and always bringing over freshly baked breads, cookies, rolls, cakes, whatever you can imagine. But she left us for heaven in 2017 and 💔😢though I bake👩‍🍳, having learned from her, managing my five kid household and businesses👩‍💼👩‍💻 does not leave much time on a day to day basis. So, getting back to those canned thingies that are probably making Mom roll (sorry, Mom!), in this age of technology and innovation, why are we still struggling to pop it open by shoving a spoon in which works about 2% of the time, leaving plus otherwise to start hacking it with a knife like I did this morning which (fair warning!) created a bit of a mess.,❌

2. The School Book Fair. 📚📚📚✏️Hello. 🤔🤷‍♀️Amazon? Can someone explain the reason to invest all the time, energy & effort to set up a huge display to provide a synthetic shopping experience for children where no matter how poor you are parents are swindled into sending in hard earned dollars to be spent on smelly erasers? Thank you PTO.❌

3. School Pictures. 📸🤳Hello. Digital camera? iPhone? Snapchat? Instagram? A million selfies on your child’s phone? 🙅‍♀️Just no. I am not going to pay some third rate government contracted photographer to take pictures of my non-smiling, messy haired child with a brown background. I am definitely not going to spend money to hang it on my wall. (Okay, the first year I got swindled and they still hang but no more!) It hearkens back to my childhood when they used to use the same comb to flatten all our hair while we stood obediently in line (eww!). I’m sorry, but when, despite all the changes in the way we do life (cell phones, computers, grocery delivery…) why are we still having the government take pictures of our children and guilting parents into buying them? Seriously? Please think of some other way to demand money from school age children required to send their children to you every day for 7 hours.❌