Ok, so I’m sitting in my classroom trying to review in my head what my plans are for today. I think I am in that place that I dread the kids getting to. I AM DONE!!! 10 days and counting and I can’t get motivated. Do you think the Admin would care if I showed movies for 70 hours? Just kidding. I cannot seem to get my butt up to get things going. I have 5 more minutes before the kids come back from band/orchestra. I’m thinking some quiet essay writing is in order… Yeah, they will love that. Then maybe some advanced algebra. That will keep them busy. I think I will put an hour ticker on my desktop. Does anyone know where I can find one?
Twilight Zone May 16, 2008
Hey guys… I’m trying to re-learn how to juggle all of this classroom stuff and my family so please give me a break! I think that student teachers should have to stay until the end of the year. Getting back into the groove is hard! When did I find time to grade papers, teach, go to meetings, email, plan lessons, plan field trips, and eat during the school day before? Needless to say, I haven’t had much time to blog lately, so until summer, you will probably only get one once every week and a half.
Let me tell ya, this has been the strangest 24 hours I have had in a long time! I went to sleep very strangely last night. I just had a funny feeling that something wasn’t right. I couldn’t go to sleep do to this wierd feeling of paranoia that I still cannot define. I was finally drifting off and Logan starts screaming uncontrollably. I went in to check on him, but he wouldn’t respond to me. He just kept screaming, which is not like him. I finally realized in my dazed state that he was not responding because he was not awake! He stopped screaming and continued sleeping in silence.
I went back to my bed and as I was getting in, I saw a spider crawling up my bedside table the size of my hand! My heart started racing and I screeched, but when I looked closer, there was nothing there. I looked all around for it, then realized that I had halucinated the whole thing. I drifted off again, but Logan started coughing horribly, so I checked on him again, then drifted off in his bed. I got up, went back to bed, then he started yelling that he had peed his bed. Jeremy checked on him, and he hadn’t. We slept the rest of the night morning after that. I woke up with a stiff neck and a fever, but went to school anyway.
As I was leaving the house, I saw a strange animal in my driveway under the carport. I looked closer, and it was an oppossum sitting right there in front of me. It didn’t move, or play dead or anything, which was weird. (That is what they do according to one of my students who just did a report on oppossums on Monday) Later today, Grandma said that she had to call the police because she found it laying in the front yard struggling to breathe. They sent animal control to haul it away. I thought that he was pretty cute. Here is a picture of when he was still among the living:
When I got home from school, Logan had a sky-high fever. He begged me to hold him (he didn’t need to). That explains the odd night. What explains the odd creature?
Ok… So I finally remembered the camera! May 4, 2008
Well, I am finally on the ball with the picture taking, so I thought I should catch everyone up on the most eventful week I have had in a LONG time! This is the first opportunity I have had to sit down and record these events since I have been so busy (as you will see), so I thought I should take you through a photo journal of the week. 
Sorry that some of the photos are sideways. I can’t seem to figure out how to edit them!!! Any suggestions?
Saturday: We went to the Hausman’s to have a Rook night. The evening always starts by the kids fighting playing together. This particular time, it included a horsey ride by Jeremy. Don’t they all look like they are having fun??
Sunday: After church, we headed to the gym to run and go swimming. I forgot that there was no childcare, so Logan sat on the floor by the treadmill for 30 minutes watching the Cardinal game on TV. He then got to do his favorite thing: Go swimming! Here are pics of Daddy and Logan in the pool:
Monday: Frog dissections all afternoon (I will spare you the pictures of this 
), then to the Cardinal game to watch Bean’s choir sing. We missed the performance because she didn’t tell us that she was singing in the courtyard. The first time I have ever arrived early enough to hear her choir sing, and I missed it because I was waiting in the wrong place! Well, here is a picture of Logan with the stadium and skyline in the background. 
Tuesday: We took the class to the zoo. Grandma decided to get really sick Monday, so my principal let me take Logan with us. I got some really cute pictures of him. I especially like the one with him next to Beauty. Don’t you think he could pass for a monkey? If not, I will have to upload a picture of him climbing on EVERYTHING here at home.
Wednesday: We sent our student teachers off with a party in the morning, then more frog dissections in the afternoon. I didn’t get any pictures today 
Thursday: Another field trip! We went to the Arch and got a tour of Busch Stadium!
At the top of the world! I am 630 ft above the ground!
This is a picture of Busch Stadium from the Arch windows!
The seat section right below the fuzzy Hardee’s sign is where the picture of Logan from “Monday” was taken of the Arch, which I was taking this picture from
This is in the Press Box at Busch on our Tour. (I know you are all jealous!)
This is the Press Box and the big red ball that Mike Shannon sits on to pronounce the game. (he has a bad back )
This is me and Christy in the dugout!
Isn’t this a great picture??
Friday: Jeremy negotiated his buyout from CORE today. He got a fair deal and will now have some time off to spend with us this summer, finish his accounting degree, and pursue his next career venture. I didn’t think that this was a good photo opportunity. BUT… part of the deal was this awesome new laptop that we got to replace the one he bought for the safety company he was building.
Saturday: We went to buy this new computer and I have been busy ALL afternoon trying to get all of the needed programs installed and set up. Who needs the Geek Squad??? If I did, I wouldn’t have this massive mess in my dining room!
So, that is the crazy week we had! I think things will slow down again next week. If not, I will make sure to have my camera handy!
