Jimjams

Jimjams, according to the dictionary, means jitters.  Which is appropriate, I guess, considering it is the word that William missed in the Summit Elementary spelling bee this past week.

Being the experienced mom that I am, I tried to prepare him.  It is much harder to spell out loud than it is to spell on paper.  It is harder to spell words you aren't familiar with, even if you have studied and spelled them successfully before.   It can even be hard to spell words that you know, because you have a tendency to rush through them and make silly mistakes.  Which is exactly what William did.

He wasn't upset, though.  He took it surprisingly well.  I had warned him that it would be hard for him to win the spelling bee because he had never been in one before and he didn't have the experience that the older kids had.  And he learned.  He learned that you really need to study hard to do well in the spelling bee and that it's the luck of the draw as to what word you have to spell.  So now he has a goal to do better next year, assuming he gets in the spelling bee from his class.

As long as he doesn't get the jimjams too badly, that is.  Then all bets are off.