Switched to Murder She Wrote while looking up the website for the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency. Private eye Harry McGraw (Jerry Orbach) may think "Tough Guys Don't Die," but someone killed his partner when he was out on assignment. He believes it had to do with one of the three cases the guy was working on, but Jessica thinks he's got the wrong one. While he pursues a man who may be two-timing his wife, Jessica looks at a murder who may have had the wrong man arrested and the female editor of a magazine who suddenly retracts her intention of running for public office.
Switched to The First Easter Rabbit while having a really quick lunch and getting ready for work. I went further into this Rankin-Bass special at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog in 2023.
Thankfully, no trouble getting a ride to the Thomas Sharp School, other than I made the call late and had to pay a bundle for it. At least the guy arrived in 5 minutes, and I got there in plenty of time.
We started with reading two books in the library, since the music class was still using the cafeteria. I had 10 kids today, and they were a little antsy in the bathrooms and waiting in line. I had to remind them not to block the door to the halls. The boiler room is right across from the boys' bathroom, and the custodians have their offices between the two bathrooms. They need to get in. Snack time and playing afterwards was even crazier. One of the girls spilled applesauce on herself, and I did my best to clean up her shirt front. Another one threw colored pencils at me until I got mad and put her in time-out. (Her mother did get her to apologize to me before she left later, and I had a talk with her.)
It was too beautiful outside for anyone to be angry for very long. I'm so glad we spent the rest of the afternoon outside. In fact, after it was down to four younger kids, the remaining older kids joined us on the playground. It couldn't have been a more perfect day in mid-March, mid-upper 50's, sunny, and breezy. I pointed out buds on the trees to the kids, another sign that spring is truly here. They happily chased each other and danced to "The Floor Is Lava" and songs from Frozen, Trolls, Moana 2, and KPop Demon Hunters. They even got on the swings, once their numbers had dwindled enough that fewer people were likely to get hurt around them and there were less of them to argue about who would go first.
Jessa picked me up around 5:30. We had a light dinner at Honeygrow at the Ellisburg Shopping Center in Cherry Hill. I'd been wanting to try that place for ages, but there's so many other restaurants in the area, I'd just never gotten around to it. It's basically the same idea as Cava or Chipolte, only with stir-fry and salad in bowls instead of Mexican or Mediterranean food. Jessa had the Chicken Shawmara and strawberry-guava drink. I had sparkling water and a make-your-own bowl with whole wheat noodles, shrimp, vegetables, and garlic butter sauce. Oh yum! It was a wonderful melding of flavors, perfect after all that running around with the kids.
We had dessert at the Rita's Water Ice on the other side of the shopping center. It was getting a little chilly by the time we finally got down there, which is probably why we were the only ones there. Jessa got a butter pecan cone. I couldn't decide and had a gelati with mint chocolate chip water ice and chocolate ice cream. Since it was getting chilly, we ate our treats in Jessa's car.
Finished the night at home with The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town. I went further into my favorite of the three Rankin-Bass Easter specials at my Musical Dreams Movie Reviews blog way back in April 2019.
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