12.07.06
rough draft EDIT: Now final!
Now that I’m sick, I have time to blog. Blessing and curse, really.
- It snowed a lot around here on December 1st. I think we got about 6 inches over night. Makes me homesick for Washington where school and just about everything else would be closed. I made it to school okay, except that Starbucks was closed due to a power outage (what Washingtonians!). Roughly 1/5 of my class didn’t come to school, so I threw my plans out the window and we read for fun, played Sudoku, and made ginormous 3-D paper snowflakes. Said snowflakes are now hanging from the lights in my classroom, so it’s very festive. I had lots of fun hanging them up, given the extremely high ceilings in the room. It involved a white board eraser, yarn, throwing stuff, and crashing sounds. Whee!
- I’ve been baking a lot recently. I made two chocolate eggnog cakes and a batch of chex mix. Yum!
- great quotes, including “i’d pictured you older” from a parent (what does one say to that?) (yeah, that will just have to stay in rough draft format… all I have is the amusing quote.)
- I’ve been two one Christmas and one “holiday” party so far–”holiday” party at school consisting of way too much yummy Italian food (catered buffet! whee!) and a spoof on the Sound of Music. Very amusing. The Christmas party was with GCF, where we had a white elephant exchange, and again my trash was someone’s treasure. I parted with the martini shaker given to me by a student (really) and came home with silly putty and silly string.
- Knitting club is going strong! Three days a week I help kids learn to knit, and get in a little project work myself. It’s a beautiful thing! I’ve finished a scarf and hat so far, now I’m working on Christmas presents.
- I wonder if my class remembers my name…I was out for most of Tuesday on a visit to another school to observe some of their programs, then I was sick Thursday and Friday with the cold Jamie mentioned above. Man, will I pay for it next week–two days with a sub, and the week before break. I might have to break my usual “one coffee a week” rule. Seriously.
Mamafish said,
December 11, 2006 at 7:47 pm
1 - So when do we get the final draft?!?
2 - NOTHING is wrong with looking younger! I was carded at 30, made my day!
3 - I hope you plan on doing some baking here… PLEASE? ! ?
4 - Love you two lots! ! !
5 - See you in about 12 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jeni said,
December 16, 2006 at 2:40 am
Um, I think I want that chocolate eggnog cake recipe. Stat.
:)
Jodi said,
December 18, 2006 at 11:34 am
I recently had a para-educator sub come into my room and tell me I didn’t look old enough to be teaching. She then proceeded to guess my age as 22. (i’m 23) Then she wanted me to guess her age! (I declinded and she told me she was 40-something) Crazy stranger! I didn’t appreciate any of this, as you might have guessed. (especially as it was in my last minutes of planning before school. I was working when she came in and she came right in, walked up to me, and began interupting what I was doing!)
Many/most of the parents of kids in my room are not that far off from my own age (older and younger!) so I luckily don’t get that from the parents.
Raina said,
December 19, 2006 at 1:00 pm
3-d snowflakes - ooh how? we have some in the library but no one can figure out how they were made! do you have directions somewhere?
looking young - I’m constantly getting called “sweetie” “honey” and a variety of other patronizing names at work. I do a lot of gritting my teeth and bearing it. it really does feel demeaning sometimes.
Anne Glamore said,
December 19, 2006 at 6:02 pm
HOW do I make a chocolate eggnog cake? That sounds like a must!