Things I learned while chaparoning a fifth grade field trip

1. There will be fifth graders taller than me. And they will point it out.

2. A bus full of 60 fifth graders are louder than standing next to a jack hammer. Only in a higher pitch.

3. You will find out who everyone likes via the grapevine, notes and betrayed pinkie swears.

4. To a fifth grader everything is a level 10. Everything.

5. My daughter is the sweetest/prettiest/funniest/best one of them all.

6. At least two boys in her class feel the same way.

7. My daughter's teacher should receive the Nobel peace prize for the amount of patients she has.

8. I'm really out of shape. Really. Out. Of. Shape.

9. A blue whale's heart is the size of my car.

10. Seeing my kids interact in their natural habitat is really cool.

And this little girl holds my heart in her hands.