School seems to be back on the upswing. The parents are nutty (one kid was one point off the honor roll and the 'rents were down my throat!) and the kids are worse, but overall it's been okay. I'm trying to ignore a lot of baloney. Last weekend for our anniversary, Dan got me tickets… Continue reading Happy December!

I haven't blogged in a very long time because school has sucked all of my energy. Report cards, report card conferences, lesson plans and trying to have a life inbetween. And right now I'm venting. I'm in such a funk right now. This little piece makes so much sense to me (from craigslist)"How is it… Continue reading Being a teacher

Yesterday I received what is possibly the best package EVER! All the way from Hawaii - cliostreet / Emily sent me the coolest bag (I love love love the owls and the colors) that has all kids of pockets that were stuffed with things. Really - go check out the photos on her site, because… Continue reading Back-tack II (I’m behind)

In anticipation of tomorrow just being a really crazy day (there's school and Monday's are always draining, and Halloween - we're taking Jackson to our mom's for treats!) Here's my "Award-winning" Halloween dachshund! Seriously, at the Dachshund Rescue Halloween Event today, Jackson won a prize for his costume! I don't know which place yet, but… Continue reading Happy Halloween!

Where did October go? Suddenly October is gone and it's time to turn back the clocks (do it tonight before you go to bed!) School is still wild and crazy. I am having a lot of difficultly with classroom management of 4 boys in a fifth grade class (the rest of the class is ok).… Continue reading A little bit of everything

Romy was my Needle Exchange buddy. She rocks!There's an awesome skein of CottonCheneille in a lime green, knitpicks Shadow (lost lake) and the pattern to use with the yarn and the needles to knit it up with! How excited am I to finally try out knitpicks yarn? Very! And to try lace? The pattern is… Continue reading Needle Exchange

I will easily fess up to watching crap tv - give me real world and road rules any day. But did you know that I adore Felicity? I may have watched one or two episodes in its original run, then caught reruns and then end of the series during grad school... It's like Dawson's Creek… Continue reading TV Secrets

Knitting has been going, slow because there just are never enough hours in the day, but it's going. I've got flora just about finished. Going to hunt down buttons tomorrow, yay! I used the exact wool cotton called for and it's scrumptious (jimmybeanswool.com currently has some wool cotton on sale! I may need to purchase… Continue reading ‘scuse my ends

This sums it up:Last night we went to the Durham Fair - always fun. Today we ran errands and planted bulbs for the spring. And now, resting. I should try to get a little jump on lesson plans, but I really just want to knit!! And since this is most likely the last really warm… Continue reading Weekend (& Yarn Help Needed)

We're sitting here watching Trump's "Apprentice" and during commercials, as I'm checking on my 0923485-23904762456729-38475n bazillion bloglines, my hubby makes a very astute observation. I never knew that knitting could be so much more than the act of knitting. It’s reading about knitting. It’s writing about knitting. It’s buying knitting.And I replied (trying to be… Continue reading Quotes from the couch