Mary J. Blige at ESL

It was a relatively quiet night at ESL. I credit the genius craft idea- it goes something like this - glue anything to paper. We are all happily making our yarn pictures when out of the quiet comes Mary J. Blige bellowing “Be Without You Baby.” We have no idea where the music is coming from because up until this point all music came from the small overworked fan in the corner. And one by one the glue covered children looked up and started to react. One four year old girl started singing along. Another little boy shyly raised his hands and said “Wooa Wooa” and then they all started dancing. By this point the music has gotten significantly louder because Ray has now pulled his cellphone out of his pocket. (Now maybe it is really common for fourth grade boys to have cellphones that sing Mary J. Blige but this all very new to me.) He lets it play for all to enjoy and then casually walks to the door like A. he can leave the room B. he has been expecting this call. So if anyone has musical recommendation of the R&B variety that are kid friend- let me know because we have so found next weeks activity. Can you say “Dance Party ThriftSmart.”