09.27.06
For my public…
…who seem to want a new post by now…
Life has been rather busy. This weekend was great–Friday night I went for a “special planning meeting” (aka coffee) with two other sixth grade teachers, then went to a game night at another teacher’s house. A near tornado kind of put a damper on the evening (well, almost literally, since it’s hard to be a hostess and wet vac your basement at the same time), but it was fun to eat chocolate (she’s one of the ones with a chocolate fountain!) and talk with other teachers.
Saturday a friend and I went on a field trip to JoAnn for the ubercoupon sale. I bought fleece to make reading pillows for my kiddos, clear quilting thread, and a whole bunch of yarn and an afghan book (I decided I’d had enough of scarves). The tricky part is coming home to my hubby and explaining why I need more yarn when I have a whole basket full of half-finished projects. Suggestions? 
Sunday night Jamie and I went to a small group from our church. I think we’ll keep going to this one. It’s mostly young marrieds and a few singles, and I really enjoyed the group (not to mention that it will give me a nice outlet for my baking tendencies).
This week at school has been a blur. I’ve been reading the first set of letters my kids have written about their books (they’ll write one to me each week), which have been fun. Kids tell me a bit about their lives, ask me questions (what’s your favorite color? Would you want to be invisible?), and say cute kid things (from your class clown, from your favorite student, etc.). And now I’m drawing a blank with what to say. Yup. Kids surviving, me surviving (much better than last year!), waiting eagerly for book orders to come.
Oh! I remember! I’m hopefully going to be teaching the craft club after school! Yay for getting paid to knit and crochet with 12 year olds!
And that is all.
Love,
Becky
P.S. Jamie says hi.
Mom B said,
September 27, 2006 at 9:38 pm
One summer when I was probably about 5th grade, they taught the kids to knit afghan squares for a VBS craft. Then they sewed all the squares together to make quilts for the missionaries. They were rather funny looking as some of the knitting was very tight and some quite loose. But it was a fun project. I’m sure your craft class will have fun. Hope you have fun too.
Ellyn said,
September 27, 2006 at 10:32 pm
Hi! I’m a friend of Mary and Jeni’s. You may remember me from college. I’m the RA with red hair. Anyway, I’m also a teacher and I just wanted to say your blogs about teaching give me great encouragement and hope. Thanks!
Happy teaching!
I am also eagerly awaiting book orders.
miranda said,
September 28, 2006 at 6:36 am
Yay again for teacher Becky! I found an awesome website (www.crochetcabana.com) with really easy to follow afghan and other crochet project instructions, including photos! It’s fabulous. Enjoy the homoeckyness.
Jeni said,
September 28, 2006 at 11:27 am
If you need an outlet for all your afghan skillz, I think the perfect excuse to Jamie would be, “But our friends are sooo cold out in Scotland. They need afghans to help protect them against the uninsulated, drafty windows and the heating that only turns on at night!”
Mamafish said,
September 30, 2006 at 2:14 pm
-HOMOeckyness..? Is there something you need to tell your mama, Beck?
-Suggestions: Change “yarn” to “fabric” and you have me and your dad… Answer: “Because I am going to use it for ______”, DUH!!
Jodi said,
October 1, 2006 at 6:14 pm
I got my teacher-coupon at the same time as all the other JoAnn’s coupons, so a friend and I went and both got a ton of things with a ton of coupons. It was awesome!
And now I have 500 more pages on which to scrapbook!
And I can’t wait for my book order books to come too! (I just ordered them though..) Did you get bonus points from me twice? I was able to imput the coupon twice for two different book order catalogs. Yay!