Spring Break Update

Two days in to spring break, and I'm enjoying myself a great deal by doing a whole lot of nothing.

Saturday was busy with the girls' last basketball and cheerleading games, then Bobby played in a coaches/referre game that night also. We were officially all basketball-ed out!

Sunday was a great morning at church, then we had their celebration for basketball/cheerleading. A magician performed, and let me tell you he was FANTASTIC!!! His humor was as good as his magic act. I totally enjoyed myself!

Monday Bobby put the girls on the bus and let me sleep in, and then he and I took a nice brisk 4 mile walk around Watkins Mill Lake. Little chilly, but not bad once we got moving. It was so nice to spend time with him just talking! We don't do enough of that.

Last night, two words: Bon. Jovi. Our seats were incredible--we were so close we could see the sweat on his face. He sweated through three shirts--he also ripped off his shirt right in front of us to change into the third shirt, so for about 2 seconds, before he ran backstage,I saw Jon Bon Jovi with his shirt off. Yum. He had a nice mix of old and new stuff, and sang for three hours straight. Great performance!

Today I had lunch on the Plaza with a friend, then drove through The Hood to the Girl Scout store to buy some patches for the girls.

Good times, good times!

Heaven on earth

5...4...3...2...1...GO

Begin week-long spring break!!

My kids still have school, so it's a week of me laying around the house, reading, watching movies, and taking naps.

Ahhhhh...heaven on earth.

Picture tour of new high school

This morning I got to tour the new high school where I will be next year. It was a quick tour during my plan. Some parts of the building are coming along nicely, and others are still lacking walls. My area is pretty much ready to go--I could go in and teach tomorrow. Minus computer and projector, etc.

My two classrooms next year: on the left is the computer lab, and on the right is the main classroom. I will share this with another teacher. We currently have a door connecting our lab and classroom, and it will be strange next year without that door.

Here's our tiny closet.

This is what will be our computer lab.

This is what will be the main classroom.

And this is a staircase to nothing...there's a door at the top, but the door goes nowhere.

Me, the yearbook adviser and our tech guy Curt with our hard hats.

This is the curved staircase in the front entry way.

And this is what will be the front entrance

It's coming along nicely! I'm exited to get in there. I will be lost for a while--the layout is so completely different. I'm closer to the front office than I currently am, but farther away from the cafetaria.

So ready for a change and a new challenge!

Summoned

I received notice in the mail yesterday that I have been called for jury duty the first week of April. I am remotely excited about it, but it comes at a very bad time. I have a field trip that Wednesday, and our big dodgeball tournament is that Thursday. Plus my brother's family is coming in town...

Ideal situation: I go that Monday and Tuesday, then they are finished with me and I can make the field trip on Wednesday.

Then the next week I'll be in Portland... April is going to FLY by.

Pics

Some of you might remember my 365 project...to take a picture for every day of 2010. Well, I have failed. I did really well until the end of February, then two days of being away from my kids and two more days of p/t conferences killed the project. It was hard. Harder than I thought it would be.

I also realized that it's been a long time since I've put pictures of the girls on here. So here are some of my favorite's from my 365 project...before I was a loser and failed.


I looked outside and this is what I saw... standing on the porch railing to reach an icicile.

One of my favorites--I took this of myself when I got my cool new glasses. Took about 150 to get this one that I liked.

Grandma snuggling with Kaylin

Bobby and his girls...one a cheerleader, one a basketball player

And Kayling snuggling with Grandpa early in the morning.

That's it for now! I'll try to to be better at posting pictures. I've kind of been in a slump lately!

Busy weekend!

Very fun and busy day yesterday!

Basketball and cheerleading games in the morning--next week is the final week. I'm ready to have my Saturday's back!

Then our house was flooded with 13 KU fans to watch the MU/KU game. We were vastly outnumbered, and they were quiet obnoxious with their yelling, as most KU fans are. :) It was fun regardless.

Right after that, Bobby's shift headed over to Em Chamas, the Brazilian Steakhouse. FANTASTIC food--it was incredible, to say the least. The gourmet bar was to-die-for, and the 15 different kinds of meat were mouth-watering. If you leave that place hungry, you are crazy. Or a vegetarian. Here's the link if you want to check it out. You want to be hungry when you go there.

Now Macy is at a friend's house, and Kaylin has a friend over. Bobby is at work and I'm enjoying relaxing.

One more week until spring break!

Still here

I'm still alive and here. Just busy!

I'm recovering from pink eye. Still can't wear make-up or my contacts. Bobby's been sick for a couple days and is finally feeling better. Kaylin and Macy have been sick in the last week. I've been fighting if off, and (knock on wood) I think I've made it.

We are doing interviews for newspaper staff for next year, which feels weird because I won't be there with them. I'm very excited about going to the new school, but it will be bittersweet at the same time to leave this school and these kids.

I went to a conference today. It's always good to get out of the classroom and learn new skills. I left my cell phone in my car when I got in a friends car to ride together, and I realized how dependent I was on my phone when I didn't have it all day. I couldn't check my email, or my Facebook, or my Twitter, or my Words with Friends Games, or my Whirly Word Games. But it was nice at the same time to be separated from the world for a break.

Only 7 school days until a whole week off!