Thanks Jen!
I've been trying to help you with your nursery rhyme analysis, but I'm not having any luck either. One site says they're instruments of torture!
I always just assumed that they were herbs/compost.
Good luck with your lesson!
Well, it depends on who you are teaching the nursery rhymes to. Most nursery rhymes were written to teach moral lessons. So, Mistress Mary, quite contrary, was actually the queen Mary Tudor, or Bloody Mary as she came to be called. Her "garden" was literally the hundreds of Protestants that she tortured and ultimately burned.
However, it had to be couched in terms that wouldn't offend said queen. Thus, every part of the rhyme can also be very innocent, with the silver bells and cockle shells references to flowers that were common at the time.
Ring Around the Rosy was a way for parents to warn their children about the plague and what would happen. The first sign of the plague was a red spot that had a darker ring of red around it. A pocket full of posies, was simply a way to ward off the plague. People would carry herbs in their pockets as a way to keep the plague away. Ashes, Ashes, we all fall down, was in reference to the burning of plague bodies, and how no family was spared from the plague.
Most nursery rhymes have a very darker meaning when you start delving into them, however, I don't think I'd bring that up to very small children!
Hope you get some answers. Poor Molly and Mom!
i had someone come this morning to train to do every other weekend so my attendant could have a weekend off to be with her family. well she just called and doesnt wanna do it. so that means i have noone for this weekend b/c my attendant has a friends wedding that she is in. UGH!!! i do have my parents but they are in there 60 and have hard time as it is putting me to bed. so i asked who was gonna be here this weekend and i have to let the girl i had at first who never came on time come and she said she can only come in the morning from 8-11 not 9-12. ugh oh well at least i have someone in the mornings for sat and sun.
So sorry you have to put up with all this!
I'm am definitely not feeling great, I'm having horrible vertigo and assume it is an inner ear issue. I think sudafed helped as I managed my entire shift and I don't think anyone suspected that I wasn't feeling great. Tomorrow is day one of the bowling tournament so I'm really hoping that I feel better. I plan to bring the med cabinet just in case. No reason to feel horrible if I don't have to right? The good news is that I've lost my appetite so it is easier to stay on track diet wise. maybe this is God's way of keeping me from cheating this weekend
I bought DH a new Delsey carry-on for the Feb trip and he really likes it. This one is the same size as a couple of our Samsonites, so we will use it in August instead of the duffle I usually use for my shoes. The duffle has one of those telescoping handles and the framework for the handle takes up a lot of the interior room in the bag, so I should be able to fit a lot more in the new suitcase. Not sure how much more I really NEED to fit in there, but you just never know.
) is about an hour away. Alyssa's too excited to take a nap. Should be a fun evening. 
and 
Where on earth did they get THOUSANDS of cast member pins that are all the same so they can put them in identical groups? Those pins are not ones they acquired by trading in the parks!
