Hello? Is anyone still there?

Hi! Ok- for those few people who still check to see if I have posted anything- I do truly apologize- I do not know what happened to November-or December or even January or February, but I promise that I will try harder to post again on a more consistent basis-

So yesterday I picked Sydney up from school and she informed me it was a day of sirens (drills) a fire siren and then one siren where we had to all squeeze on the stairs called lock down in case someone comes in and wants to hurt us or has a bomb!

How completelty scary/sad my little 5 year old now has to practice in case some psycho decides to pick her school for their random act of violence! Luckily Syd did not seem to grasp the seriousness of her words, in fact she was more annoyed as she told me that the substitute would not let her go and get her backback during the fire "siren" because she had a lot of important stuff in there! SO I told her that I supported her teacher and that I could replace anything in backpack, but could not replace her- to which she responded "You could adopt!"