09.27.06

For my public…

Posted at 6:05 pm by Becky

…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.

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09.19.06

Sigh.

Posted at 2:00 pm by Becky

I stayed home from work today (don’t worry, I called for a substitute first). I have slept for about 12 hours since last night. Still tired.

However, the saddest thing is that it’s Talk Like a Pirate Day and I missed it. Luckily the kids probably didn’t know, so I can read them my pirate book tomorrow. Aye matey!

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09.18.06

Lots of Pictures

Posted at 8:06 pm by James

Hello, gentle guests, we have an excellent selection for you today. Firstly, we have a set of wedding photos! These were taken by our good friend Gigi while her husband Kyle was busy being one of my groomsmen. I’ll eventually put up a couple more sets of wedding photos, taken by various people.

Secondly, you get to see the kitties! Oh yeah, and Becky’s classroom is in that album as well. Cheers!

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Me and chaos

Posted at 5:26 pm by Becky

There seems to be a bit of confusion as to where I have been. The answer could be any of the following:

Doing something in my classroom (grading, planning, copying, developing, etc.)
Trapped under a mountain of laundry
Reading one of my billion library books (okay, so it’s only about four, but I feel like it’s an addiction)
At the zoo for a workshop (I forgot how much fun it is!)
Cuddling with my hubby
(the most likely) Sleeping off the bug I caught from one of my little darlings.

I also took pictures of my classroom and kitties, so hopefully Jamie will post them soon (hint hint!).

This afternoon is a good example of my life of late: Stayed at school until 5, came home to dinner out of the crock pot (best invention ever! I think we might starve without that thing!), watched Jamie wrastle the kitties (trying to trim their claws) while I graded papers, planned the next two weeks (we’ll see how that goes), made hanging file inserts for the kids, and now plan on printing up the guidelines for reading workshop. I suppose that only makes it a 12 hour work day with a break for dinner… sheesh.

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