"Goodies"

Today was the last day of our puberty lessons. With the conclusion of the program, the kids are given some "goodies." Us teachers think of them as goodies too! For a main staple of the goodie bags is deodorant, which is much needed and rarely used in the fifth grade.

I had the honor of passing out the goodie bags to the girls. They were very excited as the goodie bags looked nice and had a lot of good stuff in them. Things these girls can really use.

The boys, simply got a small stick of Old Spice deodorant.

You can imagine the jealousy that roused among the boys once the girls walked in with their bustling bags. The boys did not necessarily realize that they needed nothing that was inside of the girls' bags. They just were envious because this is what they saw in comparison to their little stick of antiperspirant:

Once the girls put their bags away and out of the sight, the boys somehow got over it. They however, did not put their Old Spice away. Well, not before running to the bathroom and secretly putting it on. If they did it secretly, how do I know? Because for the rest of the day my room had an overpowering smell of Old Spice High Endurance deodorant. 

I didn't mind this for three reasons. 1) The deodorant, no matter how overpowering it is, smells better than the alternative. 2) I thought it was kind of cute how the kids were so excited to run and put on deodorant. The simplicities of childhood! And, 3) because Jeff uses Old Spice High Endurance. These kids had a little more piled on their bare underarms, but the smell, nonetheless, brings happy thoughts.