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Alyssa got this black eye from Brenda.

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OK, OK!  I’ll explain.  Today is Theme Dress day at school for the elementary kids.  Each class chose a theme, and Alyssa’s grade 4 class picked the theme “injury day”.  According to the note sent home by Alyssa’s teacher, this means, the kids can “come to school looking like they are injured (bandages, crutches, etc.)”.

I offered to give Alyssa a “Hawaiian Punch”, but she though that was a bad idea.  Brenda, however, used to do theatrical make up and has  a full case of makeup supplies and used her skills to produce this result.  It’s pretty convincing and I guess her teacher did quite the double take when Alyssa showed up this morning.

Since you are obviously wondering – yes, Brenda has dished out shiners before:

This was for a “fancy dress” Australia Day party that we were invited to with our Australian friends in Cold Lake way back in 1993. Brenda went as a rugby player, complete with knee bandage and black eye.  I don’t remember what I went as – probably a koala, since I’m so cuddly…

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