After a wonderful week free from formal education, you can imagine the resignation in my son’s voice as he asked:

“Mom, do we have school today?”

He was confident that the answer would be yes. His tone was one of defeat. He knew arguing with mom about schoolwork was futile and even dangerous…a battle likely to end in piles of extra assignments for mom thinks the best way to appreciate 2 hours of schoolwork is to do three instead. And then slave-driver mom says:

“Son, today for school you will participate in a tradition that is over a hundred years old. Today you and 10,000 other children will roll eggs on the lawn of the White House.”

Hooray for school! Let’s just hope it stops raining.