I'm Alive!

Well, HELLO blogging world...

I am actually still alive! This time of year is absolutely crazy. To add to it, I hosted a Kids Art Fair (for all of my 750+ students) at the end of April and we are planning Miss Ava's FIRST Birthday Party (I know, can you believe it!!??).

My original thought was to start using my shutterfly site for Ava (which I will still probably do/am doing), and even though you can 'blog' on it, I haven't gotten myself in the habit - like I was here on my blog. Funny thing is I REALLY enjoy writing and getting my thoughts out, etc. One of my english teachers in college even told me I was good at writing and should think about using that talent!

I'm sitting here on this Friday morning with my coffee (2 Hazelnut creamers and 2 sweeteners---is it even still coffee???) and need to get a few things off my chest!!!!!!!!!!

I am sooooooo anxious for summer and the kids are even more anxious - or so I would think based on their behaviors! YIKES! I feel like I'm speaking a foreign language to some of them. I need to push in my chair? What? I need to walk? What? I need to stop talking? What?...
Yeeeeeeeeah!

On top of that, I have purchased all of my 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students (about 375) a 4" x 4" canvas to paint on (with money I earned from my art fair). We are doing a REALLY cute project (I'll post some pics sometime...). I am even allowing them to splatter paint...they are having a ball but wow, I'm losing my mind! It definitely makes for a lot of clean up but oh well, it will all be worth it. :-)

OK, so with my mind going in 2 million different directions, I think it's putting me a little on edge and what would probably not bother me normally just really gets me ticked off! Oh it could also be due to the fact that Ava has been sleeping horribly...thankfully last night she slept all night without any interruptions!!!!!!!!! YAY! We were thinking maybe another ear infection or something but she seems fine now and I think she was just getting too comfortable with mommy and daddy coming in at her every whimper (haha...not really but...)

{So anyway here are a few stories of what's been bugging me!}

Yesterday I find out that a group of teachers were going to use my classroom because they thought I wasn't here (I'm at my other school on Thursday mornings...but come here in the afternoon). That wasn't a big deal but then one of the teachers proceeds to tell me that she tried getting on my (school) laptop which was IN MY LAPTOP CASE on my desk. Since I keep it 'locked' (when you open the computer you have to log in), she wasn't able to get on it and she said she didn't want to mess with that so she just left me a note. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? I would never open someone's laptop case and just get on their computer...

Ok, so this one is pretty comical...so, I go to Walgreens after having to run some errands yesterday after school and before Bunco and just need to pick up my Nexium, return a few things and get some eyeliner and some fast dry nail polish. "GIDGET," the girl working there WOULD NOT STOP TALKING TO ME!! I was telling Travis, she had completed the sale, I had paid, my items were in the bag and she would not hand it over! She kept going on about how they are doing a lunch this weekend and it's only a $5 donation for lunch...oh and the garage sales in the neighborhood are also going on, oh and this one guy who had cancer and is in a wheelchair offered to go around and pass out flyers, oh and he is even going to collect the money for them, oh and yeah, people are so excited, they are going to bring their 4 kids and wow, only $5 and that gets them lunch......................O........M........Goodness!!!!!!!! It really went on longer than that. Then I'm driving home, on my street, only a few houses away and the people up the street's dog (ok, and I LOVE dogs) is just leisurely taking it's time walking down the middle of the street. This dog is old and just wanders, I swear!

So, anyway, that is a glimpse into my world. :) I will post another blog soon for Ava's 11 month info....well, hopefully before she turns 1 YEAR OLD!!!!! My little sweetie pie!