Music Class at BB's

Tonight we had an impromptu dinner at BB's... Don't ya just love those times... If we would have planned it, everyone would have been busy.... But tonight I called just about an hour before it was ready and everyone was trying to decide what to do for dinner.... I LOVED it!!!! Since I have been buried up in school work lately I haven't seen the family for a while.... 

As always, Taylor and Sophie enjoyed my instruments of the world collection... I have about 30 instruments that I or friends of mine have purchased from all around the world. I recorded it because Sophie was just laughing so hard... She kinda quieted down for the video, but it is still quite a musical debut. 

Cancelled

I was all ready tonight for Back to School night... I had my Promethean Board flip charts ready... a nice little magnetic chart for each parent.... Candy on the desks... then came the storms.... We had to cancel... Tornados seemed to be popping up everywhere.. The sirens went off and everyone was kinda on edge... There was a pretty bad one over near Clemson, but thankfully one never showed up at the school... Better be safe than sorry though... That just means I will be all the more ready whenever we do have it. 

If you live around here I am sure you saw the heavy rain this afternoon.... too bad you didn't get to see what I saw... one of my neighbors running out of the house in her t-shirt gown to put buckets under drain pipes to catch the water.... Guess her water bill was too high last month.... She got soaked... It was hilarious!!! Stay safe in the storms and thank God for the rain!!!

Classroom '08

This is my classroom... Let me know what you think!!!

The Light is On.... But Nobody's Home

In typical back to school fashion... I have lost it!!! Here is just a taste of the idiotic things I have done today!!!! ( YES ALL OF THIS WAS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!)

1. I discovered I have been using 2 different keys to get into 2 different doors that both can be opened with the same key!!!!!

2. I tried to call a teacher friend of mine for 10 minutes today... Her line was busy the whole time... Around minute 11 I realized I was dialing my own number instead of hers! NO WONDER IT WAS BUSY!!!!!

3. I offered an "older" teacher that I work with a comfy chair in our meeting... She said...."What do think it is.. My Birthday???" I said no, I was just being nice... 30 minutes later I found out it really was her birthday and I hadn't said anything to her all day!!!!!!!!

4. I went to open my class window.... The handle fell off!!!

5. I printed all these labels with my kids names on them... I misspelled one of the names and had to redo them... Made the same exact mistake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

6. Went to make copies...which is a long way from my room.... FORGOT THE PAPER I WAS SUPPOSED TO USE!!!!!!!!!!!

7. I worked on "parent letter" that I thought I had lost for 30 minutes..... Then I FOUND IT!!!

8. I looked for a stack of green folders that I KNEW I brought into the room for about 20 minutes.... They were right beside me the whole time!!!!!!!!!!

It is a good thing that His mercies are new everyday!!!!!!

I'll start all fresh in the morning!!!!

"Ain't He Just Good!

 

School Night

Well... Tonight is the first school night of a new year.... I am ready as I know how to be.....These are a few of my emotions as I think about tomorrow....

I am excited... about meeting the new kids and about learning how to teach a new grade.... It is not a huge jump, but 2nd graders can do so much more than what I am used to with 1st graders...

I am nervous... about effectively meeting all of the needs that will come into my class... Teaching is a HUGE responsibility... I want to take every opportunity to help that I can...

I am tired... It has been a long few weeks getting ready for this day.... Non teachers will NEVER understand what we go through... Maybe next year I will invite some of you to hang out and see all that goes on to get the room ready.

I am honored... like I said, Teaching is a HUGE responsibility... It is a privilege to get to do it!

I am thankful... to have a job, to be back in a classroom, to work at a great school, to have GREAT coworkers, to have a great principal and assistant principal, to have great secretaries, to have great cafeteria ladies, to have great custodians, to have great EVERYTHING!!!!

Now for the last emotion....

I am anxious.......... 179 Days to go!!!!!!! :0)

Happy First Day of School!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are You In Touch With Your Inner Jed?

The title asks the question, "Are you in touch with you inner Jed?" What a great question huh? Let me explain....

Tonight as me and a great friend of mine were riding down the road, he was acting absolutely ridiculous... He started singing this random song out of no where and the best part was the dance that went with it.... I busted out laughing and asked him what in the world he was doing... His reply... "I am getting in touch with my inner Jed."  

That made me laugh even harder, but I totally knew what he meant because singing the spontaneous song and dancing is something I do all the time... I am an idiot...I know it... I am okay with it... I have embraced it.... It is who I am.... The other night at praise band practice everyone got a big dose of it... I forgot my trumpet and didn't realize it til I got there... so for an hour and a half I got to sit and act crazy while everyone else practiced... I just get that way some time... If you haven't seen this side of me... just wait... IT'S COMING!!! (Melissa, you should see it any day now!!!)

So I close tonight by asking you... "Are you in touch with you inner Jed???" If not, do something ridiculously silly this week.. make some one smile.... make some one laugh... loosen up... let your hair down and enjoy life.... You only get one shot at it... You might as well have fun!!!!

Registration Day

Well... for all of those who resent teachers because of our 2.5 month hiatus, resent no more... IT is Finished!!!!   Today the kiddos come to register... This is a huge day for kids... They are waking up all over excited and nervous...Excited because they are going to higher grade...nervous because they don't want the "mean teacher." I rarely got the teacher I wanted, but I always loved the one I got at the end of the year... 

Pray for teachers today too.. We have a great task ahead of us... I never take meeting the kids lightly... The first impression is so important.... 

I'm excited... I'm nervous.... Ready or not...Here they come!!!

Can You Tell???

..... that school is getting ready to start... I have been off the radar here for a few days... I hate that I ha vent kept up the blog this week... All kinds of stuff has happened...but when I get home at 10 and I have been working all day I just want to crash.... I actually left the building before dark today. I have lost count of how many times I have burnt my self with the glue gun... Just today I was hot gluing away and it fell and landed on my foot..... It stuck instantly.... When I pulled it off it looked like the glue was still on my foot.... I went to pull it off, and it was then I realized it was not glue, but my skin.... IT HURT!!!!!!

Tomorrow is the official first day back for teachers... even though most of us have been back for the past 2 weeks... My room is ready as it can be... I hope to get some pics tomorrow and post them for ya'll... Tune in sometime this week to see.... Have a great week!

!0 Things About My Tuesday

1. Hot Rocks were Amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going again on the 25th.

2. The AC was broken in my classroom as I worked today... I sweat like a pig!!!

3. Surprise.... My haircut was supposed to be Wed. but my "hair cutter"(It is not manly to say beautician....and she is not a barber....What else do I call her???) called and asked my to come early... It had been a month so I was happy to go!!!!!!!

4. I watered my Grandma's tomatoes..... In spite of the voluntary watering restrictions. 

5. I had dinner with Matt and Sterling at Bronco's.... Tried their version of "Hawaiian Chicken." It smelled like dirty feet...but the taste was ok. 

6. Played Wii Fit for the first time. (If you don't know this... Find some videos of it on YouTube)

7. Got kicked in the head by a giant panda.... See number 6!!!

8. Got the record on the balance beam as I walked like a penguin.... See number 6!!!

9. Laughed my tail off at Matt hula hooping, I almost threw up when it was my turn...All that shaking after Mexican was not a good idea.... See number 6!!!!

10. Remembered I have a meeting at 9 tomorrow.... Going to bed!!!!

ARE Y'ALL STILL OUT THERE???????

Hot Rocks

Tomorrow morning.... probably before most of you even read this.... I will be relaxing, enjoying a hot rock massage..... A friend of mine got me a gift certificate for one a loonnnnnnnnggggg time ago... 3 years to be exact.... and I lost it.... found it..... lost it again.... and thankfully found it one more time.... I called the massage place and they said they would honor it....

I am excited about going..... all the traveling this summer, then working so much in my classroom in the last weeks has really put a hurting on my back..... Hopefully this massage will be a bit more gentle than the deep tissue massage I got in the Philippines... That little Filipino lady beat the you know what out of me.....

Tune in later in the afternoon on Tuesday for an update.... Just because funny seems to follow me around.... I am sure there will be a blog!!!!

1 Hole + 1 Hole= 2 HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I was having floor laid in my attic because I finally got the hole in Matt's closet patched..... In order to prevent any further fall throughs, I decided to have plywood laid in the rest of my attic... It added another 160 sq. ft. to my attic... This makes me happy because now I can get up there and organize.... 

Anyway.... While the "handy men" were working in the attic one of them decided they would step off a beam... accidentally of course... and now I have another pretty little place in Matt's ceiling... this time NOT in the closet.....

Thankfully it did not leave a huge place.... It is about a 10 inch crack.... You can see it without looking though..... 

I could NOT get mad at the guy because I did the exact same thing 2 months ago... Guess there is some company in the "idiotville" I live in!!!

Needless to say the handymen will be back on Monday to prepare the spot.....

In the words of my mama..... "If it ain't one thing.... It's another!!!!!!"

On a side note... Thanks for the advice about my bathroom... I would GLADLY let my friend Emily come and clean in exchange for some toy organizing... you just say when!!!!

Cleaning the Bathroom

Today I have spent most of the morning cleaning my bathrooms.... There is nothing I hate cleaning more than the bathroom.... For those of you who know me well... you know that enjoy things nice and tidy and clean...but when it is time to clean the bathroom I just would rather do anything else???

Why you ask???.... Because I am so OCD about it being clean that it takes me forever!!!!!!! I mean... I have to plan the time to do it... It takes me like 3 hours.... Does anyone out there seriously have to plan their time to clean the bathroom???

I take everything off the counters.... I wipe them down with cleaner... then I wipe them again with a Clorox wipe, then a dry cloth..... Then on to the toilet.... GOOD GRIEF!!! That alone takes an hour.... clean then clean....then clean again....

All the time I am cleaning the other stuff.... I have the tub soaking in bleach and water..... Before I clean the tub though I sweep the floor and get all the little bunnies up..... Then back to the tub... clean, scrub, clean again, scrub again....rinse.... then back to the floor....

I started at 10....stopped at 12 to go eat lunch and then came back.... finally around 1 I was done with both bathrooms......

Here is my question???? What can I do to cut down my time in there???? Do I need counseling for my OCD??? Should I just get over it.... what???? Help me readers!!!!!