Araceli and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day

Araceli forgot her lunch today. Her mom brought it to school too late. She was already eating school lunch. It was so yucky, she had to lay her head down on her desk and rest after lunch. (The main ingredients in school lunch nowdays are additives and preservatives.)

Araceli fell down the stairs at recess and scraped her knee. She came home wearing a bloody band-aid. Her mom told her it wouldn't interfere with playing the cello. Her hair was down and all disheveled, like it had had a rough day, too.

At ballet, she left her leo and tights in the car and had to go get them in bare feet because she didn't wear shoes. Then her ballet teacher (me) sat on her toe and squished it. And her hair was still down and disheveled, not in a nice bun like usual, because her mom was too scared of it to put it up. And she forgot her new ballet skirt.

Araceli's mom accidentally gave her Ruby's homework to do. It was really hard and took a long time. After she did that, she had to do her own homework.

Araceli's mom made pumpkin bread pudding because she knew it could make everything better. Ari asked if she could please take a big piece of it over to Coco and Bill. She knew that showing up at the door with a big piece of Coco's favorite dessert would make her very special, indeed. When you have a bloody-knee-yucky-lunch-squished-toe-hard-homework kind of day, you need to be recognized as very special. The bread pudding trick worked. Coco and Bill were delighted to see Araceli and laid on the praise and adoration as thick as whipped cream.

At the end of the day, Ari's mom asked her if she had a good day or a bad day. She sang out, "A GREAT day!"

See, bread pudding can make everything better, but only if you share it with your grandparents. Or maybe the bread pudding has nothing to do with it. Maybe it's just grandparents who make everything all better. Even so, the bread pudding can't hurt...