03.27.07

Firsts!

Posted at 6:08 pm by Becky

I meant to write this post on St. Patrick’s Day, but then didn’t. For a week.

St. Patrick’s Day was a day of firsts for me. Two teacher-friends and I went to the first McDonald’s for shamrock shakes. I think that was the first time I’d been in a McDonalds since Paris. I’d forgotten how good the shakes can be. :)

My next first was my first trip to a real, live, fancy schmancy yarn store! The first yarn I picked up happened to be $90–I didn’t buy it. It was really pretty, though! I’m glad the store is far away, or I’d have lots of ’splainin’ to do!

My last first was my first corned beef and cabbage. I was a little wary of bright pink pickled meat (sorry Bianca), but pleasantly surprised at the taste thereof.

Speaking of lasts, I just realized that this Spring Break will probably be our last “visit” to Washington! Yay! I will be so excited to see friends and family and live there too!  For those of you wondering about our itinerary, Jamie is uberbusy. He has 4 interviews lined up. I, on the other hand, feel like sitting around the whole time. I should pound the pavement with my (recently updated) resume and such, but a large part of me does not want to do anything of the sort. We’ll see which part wins. Anyway, evenings are semi-free (family commitments and such), and Becky’s schedule is pretty open.

2.5 Days stand between me and a break! Whee!

03.17.07

Pictures work again

Posted at 11:05 am by James

I guess when this site was moved from one server to another, my PHP code for the pictures broke. It was a bit outdated. Well, it’s fixed. Here are some cats!

03.14.07

Happy Pi Day!

Posted at 5:59 pm by Becky

Today was the second annual pi day celebration in my classroom. I think the kids enjoy the cookies better than the math, but what can ya do? I also think that very few of them fully realized the genius that is “Oh Number Pi”, our traditional pi day carol.

I told my school that I’m leaving. It was not as fun as telling people who are excited for us. When I told the vice principal that Jamie got his diploma, she did a great “Yaaayynoooo!” reaction. Now I mostly have people coming up to me with sad looks saying “I heard the news.” I think pretty soon my kids are going to think someone in my family died or something.

My kiddos have been taking the big ol’ state tests this week. It’s awesome! I get a quiet classroom for the first hour of the day so I can catch up on grading papers, lesson planning, and all the other non-teaching junk I have to do, and then I have a great excuse to play for the afternoon. So far we’ve done math crossword puzzles, learned to play dominoes, and of course there was the fun and frivolity that is Pi Day. We’ve also been writing poetry–I was really impressed with their “What is a Poet?” poem. Pretty soon we’re going to start reading Love That Dog, which brings me joy!

In other news, the weather has been crazy here. Last week it snowed. Yesterday it was 72 degrees. Weird.

Jamie says hi (actually, he corrects my grammar, but we don’t need to get into that).

03.01.07

Where my girls at?

Posted at 4:54 pm by Becky

(Yes, the grammar makes me cringe, too!)

I just got a strange hankering for the Keola Girls Mix (I had it on my computer but it got erased in a computer melt down). Does anyone still have it? Would anyone be willing to trade a copy for some baked goods?