counting the days
Mostly since I've become a teacher I've found out that I live for the next holiday. Only this month is really awesome, because this will be a paid holiday..in NEW ORLEANS!
At the end of the month, people from my school and another elem. in the district will be heading down to New Orleans for the Renaissance Place Symposium...big Reading program we use in the library. I am not upset that I will spend 16hrs in conferences...the other hours..Wed the 27th through Sat the 30 will be spent in the French Quarter, or in the hotel room with my hubby! Talk about a mini vacation! G and I will have time to ourselves and we get to be free to explore while we are there. Sure we'll have to eat dinner or hang with my colleagues some, but the ones going with me are fun, especially our whacky and very eccentric counselor. I imagine she and I together will just have to work on not getting arrested :).
I plan to visit Margaritaville and the Flea Market too. Oh yeah, can't skip the beniegts (sp) either.
So that's next week and I can't wait.
We don't have any days off in February, but that's no big because I'm holding my Scholastic Book Fair, which means a week for me of holding no classes :). Fun stuff I tell you.
Then I will console myself with Spring Break and Easter Break. Then it's pretty much a downhill slide till we hit state testing.
After all that school hullabaloo we, I much to the disgruntlement of my hubby, are going to find a place to live in Hernando. I want my girls in their K-2 school next year. It will be better for them to be in a more mixed race school as well as be away from me where they can not revert to babies when they see me. They will have to grow up some. Sad how we want our kids to grow up.
But you can't fight it, they grow up on you anyway. I haven't bathed my kids in a couple months. Meghan will be 6 in Feb, and Kaitlyn just turned 4. They just up an decided a couple of months ago that they were done with baths. So I taught them how to shower properly, which parts of the body to wash first, and the ones to soooo wash last, and with me hovering around the bathroom door or sometimes sitting in there with them, they help each other wash their hair and get bathed. They are very independent. It's like they are hovering between baby and teenager right now, like they are skipping their middle years completely.
Meghan is totally a little fashionista. She loves to mix and match her clothes, probably influenced by the girls on ICarly on Nickelodeon, but she really is serious about her clothes...I dread her needs and wants in her teen years.
Kat mostly just goes with the flow, but she just turned 4 and she is currently married and she keeps him (Jackson is his name) in her room while we are away. I am pretty sure she's thinking about this because of our newly engaged friends, and since I'm Christina's Matron, we talk about her wedding a bunch in front of the kids.
I'm hoping Kat grows out of this whole hiding a boy in her room thing, or God help me, I will purchase a rusty machete, and some poor boy's going to lose his nerts :)....that is after I've chained her up and thrown away the key :)...Harsh...lol.
Speaking of the impending wedding. Christina and I went shopping for her gown at David's Bridal yesterday. I'm pretty sure we've already found the perfect one, but we wanted to go before her mother came because I'm pretty sure her mom will get totally flomuxed by the whole experience. The consultants in the store are very helpful, but also buzzing around like worker bees. It's nearly chaotic. Not a good situation for her very anxious mother. So to save time, and maybe some pain, we've already preselected some dresses. So eventually since I have to be at David's Bridal again today by 1:30, I will have to walk away from Zoo World on Facebook..lol.
So anyway, I've ranted enough. Hugs and lovin's to all, especially those I don't get to see all that often.
At the end of the month, people from my school and another elem. in the district will be heading down to New Orleans for the Renaissance Place Symposium...big Reading program we use in the library. I am not upset that I will spend 16hrs in conferences...the other hours..Wed the 27th through Sat the 30 will be spent in the French Quarter, or in the hotel room with my hubby! Talk about a mini vacation! G and I will have time to ourselves and we get to be free to explore while we are there. Sure we'll have to eat dinner or hang with my colleagues some, but the ones going with me are fun, especially our whacky and very eccentric counselor. I imagine she and I together will just have to work on not getting arrested :).
I plan to visit Margaritaville and the Flea Market too. Oh yeah, can't skip the beniegts (sp) either.
So that's next week and I can't wait.
We don't have any days off in February, but that's no big because I'm holding my Scholastic Book Fair, which means a week for me of holding no classes :). Fun stuff I tell you.
Then I will console myself with Spring Break and Easter Break. Then it's pretty much a downhill slide till we hit state testing.
After all that school hullabaloo we, I much to the disgruntlement of my hubby, are going to find a place to live in Hernando. I want my girls in their K-2 school next year. It will be better for them to be in a more mixed race school as well as be away from me where they can not revert to babies when they see me. They will have to grow up some. Sad how we want our kids to grow up.
But you can't fight it, they grow up on you anyway. I haven't bathed my kids in a couple months. Meghan will be 6 in Feb, and Kaitlyn just turned 4. They just up an decided a couple of months ago that they were done with baths. So I taught them how to shower properly, which parts of the body to wash first, and the ones to soooo wash last, and with me hovering around the bathroom door or sometimes sitting in there with them, they help each other wash their hair and get bathed. They are very independent. It's like they are hovering between baby and teenager right now, like they are skipping their middle years completely.
Meghan is totally a little fashionista. She loves to mix and match her clothes, probably influenced by the girls on ICarly on Nickelodeon, but she really is serious about her clothes...I dread her needs and wants in her teen years.
Kat mostly just goes with the flow, but she just turned 4 and she is currently married and she keeps him (Jackson is his name) in her room while we are away. I am pretty sure she's thinking about this because of our newly engaged friends, and since I'm Christina's Matron, we talk about her wedding a bunch in front of the kids.
I'm hoping Kat grows out of this whole hiding a boy in her room thing, or God help me, I will purchase a rusty machete, and some poor boy's going to lose his nerts :)....that is after I've chained her up and thrown away the key :)...Harsh...lol.
Speaking of the impending wedding. Christina and I went shopping for her gown at David's Bridal yesterday. I'm pretty sure we've already found the perfect one, but we wanted to go before her mother came because I'm pretty sure her mom will get totally flomuxed by the whole experience. The consultants in the store are very helpful, but also buzzing around like worker bees. It's nearly chaotic. Not a good situation for her very anxious mother. So to save time, and maybe some pain, we've already preselected some dresses. So eventually since I have to be at David's Bridal again today by 1:30, I will have to walk away from Zoo World on Facebook..lol.
So anyway, I've ranted enough. Hugs and lovin's to all, especially those I don't get to see all that often.