Sunday, April 12, 2009
The kids enjoyed all of the Easter festivities at our house, including dyeing the eggs last night. They had a lot of fun and made a complete disaster of the table. But it was definitely fun. They wanted to start hiding those eggs around the house almost before they were even dry.
Today, we went to church, and when we got home the Easter Bunny had been here and of course left goodies and more eggs. The funny thing is that I don't think the kids really care much about the stuff in the baskets - they just want to find the hidden eggs. They both go absolutely crazy running around looking for those things. I had really been hoping for a nice Easter for the first time since moving away from rainy Vancouver, but of course, it rained today. Still, I'm sure the kids would have enjoyed the hunt no matter where we did it. And speaking of the baskets, you'll notice in one photo that Ryan has a Dora the Explorer doll in his basket. Yep, my boy is in love with Dora and this is what he asked the EB to bring him! Too cute!
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Snow Days....Finally
What did you do today?
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Kindie Strikes Again
Sunday, February 15, 2009
1. I wonder if I could get my 7th graders to start using the word "monstrosity" in either their writing or speaking simply by using it myself a bunch of times. It would be an interesting experiment in their gullibility and/or suggestability.
2. Not really a musing, but just wondering.... has the phrase "tee hee" hit Pullman yet? My 7th graders use it like we used to say "cool" or "whatever", and all sorts of other strange things. But tee hee, in a high-pitched girly sounding voice.... UGH!
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
In an attempt to appease my adoring fans, all 3 of you, I will post a quick blog update.
1. Anna is great. Here is a pic of her with "Kindie Bear", the travelling kindergarten mascot who gets to spend the night with a lucky kindergartener every day. The book that travels with him is full of photos and musings of K'ers who simply adore him to pieces. ahh... the collection of germs.. I mean memories.. that Kindie must have!!
2. Ryan has been sick off and on for about 2 weeks. Lovely, green goo coming from the nose. No fever, though, so the poor kid has had to suffer through school, just like the rest of us. He started a new sports class at daycare - today was football. Geesh... I sincerely hope that 3-year-old football doesn't involve any tackling!
3. Larry & I are also good. Larry did a lot of travelling in January, which kills me. But one of his longer trips was to CA, where he got to see his brother, his dad, and his aunt/uncle and cousins. It was a great trip for him. Oh, and he met a famous SJ Sharks hockey player while out to dinner one night, so I guess that made his trip!!
4. I continue to be buried at school under an avalanche of essays that need to be graded. Hmmm.... 75 writing kids, 2 weeks to write a paper, 3 weeks for me to grade each set.... you do the math.
And that's it for now. Never thought I'd hear myself saying this, but I'm really looking forward to President's Day!!!
TTFN