Stone-soup?

Ok. I got this note from Milla telling me they were making stone-soup. This is what I did: took the girls out collecting rocks and soil samples, thinking it was for a huge mud cake/pie/soup they were 'cooking' at school the next day. After all, they ARE learning about the earth and minerals and land composition and all, so it made sense to me that 'peas' would be little rocks.

But how wrong can a mum be! We arrived in class the next morning, and all the kids had brought REAL vegetables....there were kids with sweet potatoes, broccoli..you name it, every vegetable was there. Except Milla's peas!!! Uh-oh!

But how on earth was I to know that stone-soup is a vegetable soup?! After googling it, I see that it is...sigh. This is like a while back when I came for a school parent-teacher interview with Milla's teacher in the evening (Rosemary - do you remember?). As I entered I saw all these kids, and one of Milla's class mates came up to me and said: 'where is Milla?'.... I looked around, and all parents had brought their kids!! And Milla's teacher looked at me in a funny way as if I was from a different planet...'what? You didn't bring Milla to the interview??' Well, how was I supposed to know that I was meant to bring the STUDENT as well to the interview....??!! I looked and it said absolutely nowhere on the note to bring the student. Now I know, and I can't wait to the next parent-teacher night:) I'll come prepared with all the three rascals!!