Spring book fair has always been the same week as chili dinner fundraiser and teacher appreciation dinner, but this is the first time I've worked book fair open to close every day and done the after-school events all together.

As we were cleaning up after the dinner tonight (Preston Hollow Catering did a great dinner for us again), one of the moms ( Read more... )

I got my first battle scar of book fair during setup, so the rest of the week should go swimmingly ( Read more... )

Random interesting things that have happened in the past few days ( Read more... )

I always seem to forget how much time I spent on book fair until it's time for it again and the week blurs into one long day of shelving and reordering, refreshing volunteers on running the register and card reader, and explaining sales tax to elementary school students. I felt like the walking dead after rounding the building to pull staples from ( Read more... )

Hey phoena, here's a story to add to treating everyone like criminals ( Read more... )

Second quarter report cards came home today. The ACE (in-school gifted program) progress report underscored my feelings about the in-school intervention compared to the district level program, but the IEP progress report reminded me of why I love our local neighborhood school so much. Under comments, the speech pathologist wrote ( Read more... )

The cooler weather lately has encouraged the citrus on the patio to finally start looking ripe. I am hopeful we'll have fresh tangerines in December, but I'm not sure how much longer the Meyer lemons will take. I am tickled by how well they're doing outside after having them inside last winter (and no fruit to show for it). Vogon bought another ( Read more... )

Colonial Day was a trip. With no breaks between groups rotating through station, I was on my feet for three hours straight threading needles, distributing pinned sandwiches of fabric and batting to kids, and chasing after bits that blew away since the wind never settled on a single direction for me to rig up a windbreak. A fifth grader that really ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I am going to be volunteering at an all-day fifth grade event at Laurel's school. Don't know a blessed one of the kids, save any I ran into at Cub Camp over the summer and I wouldn't recognize any of them on sight. Hopefully not all of the kids will be taller than me ( Read more... )

Other than the Vonage service ringing through to my cell phone without ringing in the house first, the ARD meeting by phone has been the easiest meeting ever. It helped that I had the binder of IEP/ARD records on hand so I could ask about last year's speech therapy objectives.

Several apartment complexes in North Dallas saw a spate of tire ( Read more... )