Yup, even children’s librarians have wardrobe malfunctions.\u00a0 But not quite like Janet Jackson’s…<\/p>\n
In the middle of today’s Mother Goose on the Loose <\/em>Storytime for the very youngest kids, I was singing my heart out while we all rang our jingle bells:\u00a0 “We ring our bells together, we ring our bells together, we ring our bells together because it’s fun to do.\u00a0 Ring them up HIGH!!!”\u00a0 >kablam<\u00a0 …bracelet explosion…<\/p>\n The glass bead bracelet that I was wearing literally exploded while my right arm was high<\/em> in the air, waving the bell around.\u00a0 Meaning that glass beads and the metal spacer beads went FLYING around the story room.\u00a0 Nice choking hazard for the little ones, eh?<\/p>\n I think I turned BRIGHT red as I scrambled around the room to collect the rolling beads, dumping them in the storytime drum while trying to explain to the parents that my bracelet had just broken.<\/p>\n No harm, no foul – no one choked, no one stepped on a bead and took a header – but this definitely proved that old adage: “Expect the unexpected.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yup, even children’s librarians have wardrobe malfunctions.\u00a0 But not quite like Janet Jackson’s… In the middle of today’s Mother Goose on the Loose Storytime for the very youngest kids, I was singing my heart out while we all rang our jingle bells:\u00a0 “We ring our bells together, we ring our bells together, we ring our … Continue reading Wardrobe malfunction<\/span>