Why I adore summer and winter holidays for teachers:

Delle: I’ve been a bad girl.  I should never have free time.

Me (just coming in the door at work): Why?  What did you do?

Delle: I infiltrated her site.

Me: Man, she is gonna be SOOOOO mad.

Delle: I wasn’t me, though.  I was the Reality Fairy.

Me: That’s AWESOME.

Delle: Well, she shouldn’t have bothered you. 

And if you wondered why there’s a fairy windchime hanging from my front porch, now you know.  She is the celebrated Reality Fairy, and every time she rings, someone got a little dose of reality.  And when I say “a little dose of reality”, it’s usually the equivalent of a branch falling off of the anvil tree.