Tuesday, April 13, 2010

In A Word

I've been tagged! My friend Mom In The Trenches hit me up for a one word meme. Thank You MITT!

So it goes a little something like this...

Hair-locs

Your Mother-here

Your Father-unchanged

Fav Food-grilledcheese

Dream last night-scary

Fav Drink-tea

What room are you in? livingroom

Hobby-Internet

Fear-failure

Where were you last night?-home

Something you aren't-skinny

Muffins-hardly

Wish list item-house

Where you grew up-Cleveland

What are you wearing?-sweats

Your pet-schnauzer

Friends-few

Something you're not wearing-shoes

Okay...your turn:

Diana & Blaine, Mama K & Hubby Love, Christine & John, and Kim & IH

Wrapping Up!!

We are finishing up school so that we can start our late spring break. I wanted to wait a little longer to be sure that we did not have snowy weather while traveling North. Wednesday will be our last day and then we will take 7 - 10 days off. We will be traveling to Canada for a lovely vacation and also do some chilling at the house. I hope to get our motor home uncovered and restocked for the camping season and usually once we get it uncovered and cleaned out, we end up spending a night out there because everybody misses camping.

I have started shopping for next years curriculum. It's like a part time job. LOL!

Friday, April 9, 2010

Call In Backup!

Tomorrow our local church is having another pancake breakfast and James has had the biggest grin on his face every time we passed the marquee out on their lawn. LOL! He is a very thin kid, but he can pack away some food. The older ladies at the church love to see him coming as it "does [their] heart good to see that boy eat!"

And guess where all that food goes? To.His.Feet!!!

We went out shoe shopping today for summer sandals. James' shoe size has jumped from a 1.5 to a 4!!!! How is that possible?!?!? I told him we might have to cut off a few toes to keep him in kid sized shoes. ~Grin~

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

10 Week Countdown

We have about 10 weeks left of school. The time has gone by pretty fast and it has been a very good year. I have really enjoyed teaching my pre-kindergartner and he has surprised me so much with what he was able to learn and do this year. Yesterday he had a reading page with a picture for coloring and we were cracking up at the way he added himself and siblings to the picture. See how the kids are hanging out the window? I asked why they weren't in their car seats and he just laughed and slapped his knee. Too funny. He is like an old man sometimes.
I have also kinda taken this attitude of exposing him to lots of things, even skills above his level just to see what he will do and I am always surprised at his abilities. Many times I will give him a page and not tell him what to do to see what he will come up with.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

We Interrupt 4th Hour....

What excitement today! We had a tornado drill and had to go to the basement for about 22 minutes. The city we live in does not typically have tornado's as we live in kind of in a bowl, but the surrounding townships have had tornado's in the past.

The kids were just looking out the window discussing how dark the sky had gotten on this rainy day when the EAS alarms started ringing. It was a good drill as I gave instructions and everyone followed them carefully and completely. We sat down stairs and talked about weather and how to respond in emergencies. (We also sorted some laundry and started a load of towels. LOL! ) A few years ago my oldest son had to prepare an emergency kit for school that we kept in the basement. It needs to be updated a bit as we have grown by 2 kids, so I guess 6th grade will be doing that this week.

We now return to our regularly scheduled class.

Monday, April 5, 2010

The Lamb Returns

So if you read here, you know about the lamb. Well this Sunday, the lesson continued with the fact that after the sacrifice, the Lamb was returned to us in the form of our Savior. When the pastor's wife announced that the lambs would be returned, 6th grade smiled so big.
So we have our lamb back and while the puppy thinks that the little lamb should be his own personal chew toy, all are happy.




Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Easter