Jobless Friday

Today I did not get called to sub, so I decided to tell one of my favorite stories from last year. I tried to find it in my journal but apparently I didn't write it down in there. But I think it was on November 5 - and it was in a Kindergarten class...

The kids started arriving in the morning and looking at books. I sat down with a group of them and talked to them about the books they were looking at. One of the girls asked me to read a book to her so I obliged. Pretty soon I've got a little herd of kindergarteners gathered around me listening to the story. All of a sudden one of the girls listening blurts out "Why do you have a hole in your mouth?" Needless to say I was a little confused by this question. I asked her if she meant there was something in my mouth. She then said, "No, in your lip!". So now I'm thinking maybe I've gotten marker or something on my lip that looks like a hole...or that maybe there's a crack in my lip that I sometimes get in the winter...but I felt my lip and it felt normal. Then I asked some of the other kids if I had something on my lip. They all shook their heads and looked at me with very confused looks on their faces - apparently they didn't know what my questioner was talking about either! But I turned around and she's still staring intently at my lip. The only thing I could figure was that she was noticing how my bottom lip in not flat across but has a indent in the middle. I had to tell her, "I don't have a hole in my lip. My lip's just like that". She let it go but I could tell she was not quite satisfied with my answer. But this little conversation sure had me puzzled - and as soon as I was able to find a mirror I must admit I was taking a pretty close look at my lip to see if there was something weird about it. But there was nothing out of the ordinary - guess I just have naturally freakish lips! Oh the things a kindergartener will tell you! :)