This is a Christmas to remember. Not only is it the first one without Grampa, it will be my first Christmas without seeing my dad. My Nana is down in Florida visiting her daughters - my dad and uncle are flying down today to surprise her! Very cool - so we all met up yesterday… Continue reading Happy Christmas!

It seemed back in August, that we would never make it to the start of Christmas vacation. And yet, here we are. Today is such a blow-off day at school. I should have brought in my knitting - I've got two sweater ornaments to seam up / make sleeves for and a flower washcloth to… Continue reading Hoildaze

So, I'm avoiding grading and correcting, all while looking really important and busy as the kids are making parachutes! I can not wait for Christmas vacation!!!I don't watch SNL anymore, this is hysterical (Chronicles of Narnia Rap!)I'm really enjoying the cast-on podcast Good music too. Last night, Heide hosted a cookie swap - it was… Continue reading Things I Like

I'm a nut. Truly. Last night before I fell asleep I thought about how wonderful it would be if at Christmas Eve (big party for my mom's side of the family) I made each family a set of those mini-sweaters / egg cozies (see here, here, here or even Last Minute Knitted Gifts) and a… Continue reading Last Minute Brilliance

Thank goodness the weather people got it right today - no school for me! We all slept in and took it easy. Even took care of the Christmas cards :^) Yay! I've got a big list of knitting "to-dos", and now I can cross one of the things off - Flora is done! I think… Continue reading Snow Day – FO!

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