Happy Anniversary

Happy Anniversary to my parents today. They were married 29 years ago at St. Anthony's Church. Next year will be the big 3-0!

Anyone looking to move?

So I come home tonight and see the most wonderful sign...a for sale sign in my neighbor's yard! These are the people that have 5 boys all under the age of 11. The parents let the oldest watch the youngest (who is about 2 at the most) while they are running around outside doing whatever they feel like. These are also the same neighbors who do not say a word to you and allow their children to beat up my trees while they are standing right there. These are also the same kids who have been throwing rocks at my birds and picking my flowers. I was only waiting for a rock to go through my window. When I have been outside, one of the younger ones now stands there and makes faces at me, yells at the top of his lungs, and pretends to beat me up. So yes I am very happy to see that sign and plus the listing agent is my cousin's husband! Hopefully we will have someone that is more respectful to the ones around them or I can only hope!

Radio Advisory Group

So I filled out this survey on one of the radio stations that I listen to and give feedback. The last question was if I wanted to be part of the listener advisory group. I checked yes and thought nothing else about it. Monday after school I received a voice mail telling me that I have been chosen and to show up at the station at 7 PM Wednesday night. If we do show up we receive a light dinner, a prize pack, and a $25 gift certificate for a restaurant. Well heck yes I am going to be there tonight. I get free food and free food for me and hubby in the future! I just have to sit there for an hour and talk about the radio station with a group. So we will see how it goes.

Lazy bums

So it is 8 o'clock and the house is quite. Gee I thought to myself where could the dang cats be the house is only so big. So I start putting laundry away and look what I stumble upon...

Pardon the messy bed but gee Lucy is snuggled on my side with her purple mouse, Isabelle is on the Redskins fleece blanket and Daisy is just trying to wonder why in the heck I disturbed her!

Just glad they enjoy the bed now because when it is my turn to sleep, out they go!

Happy Day

Happy Friday!

So school was good and the kids were a little more behaved than on Wednesday. I just wish that lessons would plan themselves and copies would copy themselves! I have so much work to do this weekend, but I guess that is all of the joys of being a teacher....you lose your weekends! Oh well, I enjoy being busy.

On the way home today, the radio station I listen to asked a question about what do 27% of teenagers admit to having in their notebooks, I thought gee that one is easy it is doodling! So I called the radio station and then it started ringing and I thought to myself gee it never rings when I call I always get a busy signal. So I couldn't believe that it was ringing and thought clearly I had the wrong number so I hung up and went through my recently called list because I called the same radio station a couple of weeks ago. So I find the number and dial again and gee it was ringing again! So imagine my luck when I got the question right and I won! Other people were guessing locker combos, paper (sorry but how dumb are we!), phone numbers, and so on. But I won a $50 gift certificate to a photography studio and tickets to a blues fest in Elkhart on the 25th. I'm just estatic I was on the radio! I seem to chuckle a lot, as my mom puts it, but I think I sounded cute!

So now I am off to watch my cousin play football for Clay. It is his senior year and he is starting and the weather is going to be great football weather! Go Clay!!!

1 down, 179 to go!

Okay so I am joking, but it sometimes is nice to count things. Well the first day of school was great. I have a class of 8 girls and 6 boys. However 5 of the 6 boys I am going to have to sit on during the year because they are so hyper. One mom warned me about her son and said that his meds didn't kick in until 9:30ish and I would have my hands full until then and then she said good luck! Gee what a great introduction to her son! I had two girls that wanted homework and one girl that wanted to know if she could work in her new workbooks! Talk about ambition!!! I don't even think I was that ambitious at that age level.

I have the students fill out informatino about themselves and how their summer went and silly questions like that and then I take their picture and glue it on their page and viola a class book! It keeps the parents interested on parent's night. One of the questions that I have is what do you want to be when you grow up. I had one little girl say she wanted to be a thearpist! I guess that is real amibtion there. Another thing that is kinda sad is when the kids were writing down their birthdays the years were 1998, 1999. Gee I was graduating high school and beginning college. I don't know if I should be depressed or not!

So I was getting ready for day two and guess what we are cancelled for the day! There was a terrible storm that rolled through the area and I guess Plymouth got hit pretty hard and parts of the town has no power. Our school does have power, however some of the other elementary around town do not so rather than make the kids sit in the dark they get an extra day of summer vacation! Gee if we did one day on one day off school might be more interesting!

Oh well I now have time to find some very comfortable shoes because my feet are killing me and I am walking kinda funny because of that. I also have to get more bullentin board things and then I can relax and watch the newest series I am getting into...ROME!! At first I was a little unsure of the show because it is a little hard to follow but now that I am into it I love it! Plus the library had a copy so it is only 25 cents a day. Blockbuster wanted $3.99 a disc and they had five different discs with about three episodes on each. The library is the entire discs and for the low low price I cannot beat it! So I am saving money watching it!

Happy Birthday Rosie!

Today my sister Rosie celebrated her 22nd birthday. Here are some pics of the day!

Jenni getting ready for Rosie's birthday...can't you tell by the festive present box!

Happy Birthday!!

Cute pic of brother and sister

Hey I was there too!

Artistic shot of Dad by the pool

All good things must come to an end....

So today is Thursday, so that means that I have one more vacation day left and then its the weekend then back to work on Monday. I have a retreat to go on and Tuesday is our teacher meeting and Wednesday is the first day of school. Wow this summer went fast. In a way I am looking forward to being busy again, but then again it means not seeing my hubby during the week and only on weekends because of our different shifts. It just makes us appreciate each other even more.

I have however accomplished a lot in the past two weeks. My classroom is set up waiting for the 3rd graders on Wednesday, the only thing I have left to do for school is accomplish my schedule for the year and decide what I am actually going to do the first full day of school. Hubby thinks that I am nuts for sending postcards to the students welcoming them to the new school year. I think it eases some of their first day jitters, also how cool is it for an eight year old to recieve mail!!

I got my hair highlighted and thinned out because once school starts, I just don't have the time and it will be Christmas time until I actually start thinking about doing something with it again. I also got my eyes checked and got new lenses for my glasses and totally new sunglasses. The optometrist also found a freckle on my right eyeball when they were dilated. I think it just means that they have to watch to make sure that it doesn't get bigger. I just think it is cool I have a freckle on my eye....how many people can say that?

It has also been warmer than heck around here and my air conditioner decided to go on the fritz Monday and I went to check on it in the basement and one entire part of it was a brick of ice. Lovely....I called the repair person Monday and all they could tell me was that it was going to be Tuesday or Wednesday when they could get to it. I loved the definite time! So I stayed home in a humid dark house on Tuesday and luckily they did call and came over. It turns out that we have a small leak in somewhere that is leaking freon. So the repair person just refilled us and we were good to go. So not too expensive...just $20 for the freon and $80 for the service call. Gee I love repair people. I am now waiting for something else to break because my mom told me it comes in three's. The first was the garage door, the second being the air conditioner, and I am afraid to find out what else....unless you count the fridge that went out last fall and we had to throw all of our food out and replace. Maybe I can count that!

Oh well...I promised Jay that I would fix him dinner when he came home. I just need to boil some noodles and fix the garlic bread and viola spaghetti dinner with my homemade sauce! Absolutley delicious if you ask me!!

Waiting

Well I am sitting around waiting for Mr. (or Ms.) UPS man to come and deliever my scrapbook that I made from the trip in Europe. The tracking system says it is out for delievery just not at my doorstep at the moment. I am very anxious because I want to see it! Gee it would have been better if the tracking system was never put in place because then I would be suprised when it came!

Oh well back to waiting and avoiding my schudule that I am trying to come up with for my third graders. I have to somehow plunk in 150 minutes of language arts, 35 minutes of religion, 30 minutes of social studies, 30 minutes of science and 45 minutes of math a day. I also still have to work around the schedules for the art, gym, music, computers, spanish, and library times that have already been plunked into place. Oh and we do really have to eat lunch and let the little ones run around for recess for 15 minutes or I will go nutty! I love scheduling!!

Fair Time

So today was full of accomplishments. One being that the grass finally received its haircut and looks mighty nice if I do say so myself, another being that the garage door guy came and fixed my garage and it works wonderful now and it didn't cost an arm and a leg like I thought it would (by the way we did get our Wii, and we are lovin' it!). I also finally cleaned my house and it is officially dehaired of kitty hair until tomorrow :)

Tonight my Aunt Rita, my cousin Anna, my parents, and my brother all went to the 4-H Fair and had some yummy not so good for you fair food. I even brought home an elephant ear for Jay! Rita and Anna rode the rides and I strolled through the exhibits and looked in amazement at the photos that were taken by the very talented 4-H'ers and the beautiful decorated cakes. I love looking at all of the projects that these very talented, hard-working kids do every year. I am including some pictures of the evening. Enjoy!