Tino Tuesday

Well, it's FCAT time.  What does that mean?  Thanks to our lovely former president George W. Bush and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (that's sarcasm Andrea), teachers and students have the privilege and opportunity to sleep FCAT, dream FCAT, breathe FCAT, and teach/learn FCAT the entire school year.  Budgets revolve around FCAT, teachers are hired and fired based upon FCAT, and students are promoted or retained dependent upon their performance on FCAT.  You gotta love those high stakes tests!

Tino may or may not be a little bit superstitious.  There are certain things he MUST do on FCAT days in order to score a 4 or 5.  It's not the studying or the preparation that happens the other 363 days of the year.  It's all about the FCAT breakfast.  Anyway, I made a BIG mistake of trying to use a new recipe for Tino's favorite cinnamon rolls.  (Note to self:  Tino's favorites are the OTHER cinnamon roll recipe that I usually use . . . not the NEW recipe that was HORRIBLE).

I know what you are thinking.  I should KNOW better.  I'm an AFAA certified Group Exercise instructor and I should not be feeding my child a bunch of white flour and white sugar . . . day of the FCAT.  Don't worry, I make Tino eat scrambled eggs and drink a glass of milk so there's at least some protein to combat the sugar high.  Oh yeah, and I don't even use white sugar.  I use brown sugar.  (How's that for some justification???)