Why I need a child...

This is why my sisters tell me I need a child:



I guess I just have way too many cat pictures!

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving and I am getting festive by sharing what my students completed and I am quite pleased with how they turned out! Not bad for a 10 second idea!

Turkey time

Talk about a short week, but lets jam pack everything into it! Tomorrow is Turkey day at school. This is when the room moms prepare a Thanksgiving Feast for the entire school. Yup all 231 of us stuffed into the cafeteria and dressed the part. This is something that I really enjoy at this school. The students are responsible for preparing some aspect of the meal. My third graders are in charge of the stuffing. Needless to say after seeing how it is made I really don't think I will be having stuffing this year. My students pulled apart loaves of bread on Friday into tiny pieces so the pieces can then air dry. I got some really cute pictures of them, but then again I am not eating the stuffing I know what they do with their hands all day. Then tomorrow the room mom can cut up the onion and celery because I am not letting 8 and 9 year old near knives!

I am hoping that tomorrow will not be a fog delay because it was getting foggy tonight. Normally I would love a fog delay but we still need to make our pilgrim hat's! Hopefully I can figure it out. I just need to arrive at school tomorrow early enough to run the pattern onto stiffer paper so the hats will actually stay somewhat firm.

Oh and if the Thanksgiving Feast isn't enough, we are also in charge of Thanksgiving basket for a family from the community. My class has a single parent with two kids. Normally I don't fret about the basket because I have had older kids who took on more responsibilty. Now that I have the younger ones it is kinda up to the parents. Let's just say some don't understand the directions of bringing cold items on Wednesday because we don't have the fridge space or one little thing of cheese is going to help this family out. So I am off to drop off a perscription, work out, and then swing by Martins to pick up a turkey for the basket and other goodies. My fellow teacher from last year has told me that it is the students service project, I also consider it my service project also. I just love buying food to make other people feel better!

Life

So today I thought the students were being calm and then 5 minutes before lunch it is like they lost it! So I spent the entire afternoon trying to get work done. Needless to say we got a few things completed. I was happy to drop them off at computers at the end of the day. Then when the computer teacher left after school she dropped off letters to me from the students. Each student wrote me a little message wishing me a happy thanksgiving. They all wrote cute messages and they thanked me for teaching them. Gee it is really kinda hard to dislike them after that! But still I am glad tomorrow is Friday!

Although my sister has my weekend all planned out for me. She is in the process of moving back home (long story and involves an ex boyfriend who is finally out of the picture!). So guess who gets to move her....Jenny!!!! . She has a new house lined up but first my mom and I are having some work done to it and it will not be ready for about three months at the earliest. So the plan is to move all of her furniture into the house and she is only to take the bare necessities to my parents. Then on Sunday I am meeting her at 9 in the morning to rake leaves at the house that she is planning to sell. My parents also told me to take my hedge clippers over there so do some trimming. So that is what I am doing all weekend.

I am trying to get my hubby to help move, but he has an insane work schedule this weekend. He normally gets Saturday and Sunday off and back to work Monday. Well because of the short week next week, he has to go in on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday but then then gets Wednesday off and doesn't have to be back at work until the Monday after Thanksgiving! So I doubt he wants to do much of anything on Saturday, plus he has to get up at the butt crack of dawn to have a blood test. Yucky!!

My parents are in Vegas enjoying the somewhat warmer weather. My dad had another test on Monday and they will not get the results until Monday when they meet with the doctor. When he had his MRI done a few weeks ago they found three spots on the his hip bone area. One doctor was assuming that the cancer had spread, so they went to another doctor who wanted to be sure that the spots are actually cancerous. So over the past week an a half he has been poked with needles get bone biopsies done. We know that two of the three spots are nothing and now we are waiting on this past test to tell us about the third spot. If all is clear hopefully they will schedule surgery sometime next month to take out the prostate. So please just keep him in your prayers.

I am off now to get dinner for my hubby. Just so I can take it to him at work and we can enjoy a nice romantic dinner in the car! Lucky us!!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to my sister Laura....she turns 21 today. She didn't want to go out to the bars last night so we took her to Between the Buns. Maybe Rosie will get her to go out tonight!



I think she enjoyed her Papa Smurf drink!

I am a dork!

We got a brand new copier at school about a month ago. This thing is the queen of copiers. It does everything but cook me lunch! The most exciting thing is that we can now print directly from our computers to this beast. Oh and did I mention somehow I got put in charge of this beast. So if someone wants to know how it works or run transperancies they come to me. So I have been playing around quite a bit on this thing. But tonight I found the greatest thing on it! Before we thought we could only print single sided copies from the computer to the copier because we didn't know if we could get the double-sided feature to work from the laptop. Well low and behold I found the button and I was EXCITED plus I can have the copier staple it from my computer! Too bad no one was around for me to tell. I can't wait to go into school tomorrow and tell the tech person what I discovered. I think I am truly a dork!

Hearing is fun!

So I am typing this and I am hearing every key that I am typing. I am trying to be soft in typing because everything is just so dang loud. I guess that is a good thing though! Surgery went fine this morning. My mom picked me up at 6:45 and then we were off. We sat more in the waiting room than actually in surgery. I remember it being 8:15 and then the next thing I knew they were waking me up and it is 8:27. Gee whiz. The doctor talked to my mom and said this one should last and they are not planning to take this one out because of all of the problems I have had. My mom mentioned to the doctor that I was still upset because I was still paying for the first surgery. He said he would take care of that since the dang thing only lasted 4 1/2 months. Go mom! We will however see if he actually remembers to do this. So I am now taking it easy and very much so a lady of leisure today. I rented some movies last night because I knew I couldn't go anywhere today. I also have a list of things that Jay needs to do around the house because they said I need to take it easy. :-)