Have you ever just had one of those days where things just keep going wrong? Sometimes its funny, sometimes its not? Yeah, welcome to my day. I woke up determined that it would be a good day...but something is working against me pretty hard. But here is what I find the most bizarre...you know how there are certain laws of nature and all that? Well, I am teaching my kids about electricity and we are talking specifically today about how opposites attract and similar charges repel. Or so it is supposed to be. I tried this balloon thing where you rub one balloon and they are supposed to attract...what happened in our experiment? They repelled. So then I went ahead and rubbed the other balloon as well and they were supposed to repel. What did ours do? They attracted. Can anyone explain this one to me!? Talk about confusing. Then we tried another experiment...something most every kid has done successfully. Rub a balloon on your head and stick it to the wall. Easy, right? Not today. We rubbed this balloon with hair and it didn't stick. We tried clothes. It didn't stick. We tried wool. It didn't stick. So out of frustration I said to the kids as any good teacher does, "Put away your books, its time for math." I got hit in the head today, too by a pretty hard shoulder...it was right before these experiments, maybe that has something to do with it all? So much for laws of nature and the like. :)