Happy Labor Day!

So now that two and a half weeks of school has passed I am now starting to get ahold of teaching third grade. I thought I wouldn't like being with my students all day long but we are so busy during the school day that I wish that I had them more! I am also starting to believe that out of my class of 14 students that 10 are ADHD and so that makes for a loud and very busy classroom. However they are listening to a point however I need to find some suitable type of discipline for them. I cannot keep yelling, I hate yelling! I however was very grateful for this long weekend! I just need to get my butt in gear and start their papers from Friday and try to enter my grades into the computer. I say try because we went to a new grade program and it is very tempermental. So we shall see if the computer will cooperate.

I did get a few things done this weekend. Saturday I cleaned and then cleaned some more. I don't think the house has had that good of cleaning since I left for Europe. So it is good to have a clean house only if it means for a couple of weeks. The cats are so dang hairy, but then again they are cats.

On Sunday, I went out to Best Buy and we finally bought our new tv. It is a Sony 40' LCD flat panel television. I had won some money from the AC Neilson Homescan Consumer group to which I belong and so we earmarked it for the tv, it also helped that Best Buy is running a special of no interest for 36 months. So because of this great sale and some extra money our living room looks so much bigger! I am very pleased with the tv, I had my brother come over last night and figure out the wiring because the VCR wouldn't work and my hubby needs it to watch his tapes. So Tony figured out the back of the tv and got us our HD channels so football will look really nice starting next week. Hubby is very happy for this reason. We only now have to get rid of the 36' big monster and our stand. So right now the big monster is sitting in between the living room and the dining room because it is so gosh darn heavy and the stand is taking up our front porch area. I think we are going to see if our friend would like it because he is moving into a house and hubby and I just want it gone.

It was so nice to sleep in today! I had some errands to run and find a new type of furniture that would hold our DVD's and I found a nice piece of furniture at Target for $60. So when I get paid again I will go back and get another one for the rest of our tapes and video games. But when I got home Jay wasn't home, which I thought was really odd because he doesn't go anywhere. Well it turns out that his mom fell off her back step at home and did something to her ankle. So he drove over there and then took her to the ER where she told him to go home and wait for her to call to pick her up. Well that was 3 hours ago. I just talked to my mom and she thinks that they are probably just beginning to see her. So hopefully her ankle is just badly sprained and not broken. But we will soon find out.

I did also make cookies today and they are very yummy! They are chewy granola cookies and so I think that they are semi-good for me! So now I am off to grade papers and tackle that grade program! Lucky me!!!