tonight little brother went to his first wrestling practice! i wish i would have taken my camera! what a blast to the past! someone made a comment about passionate parents of wrestlers. is it bad that i can already see myself becoming one of those?
I posted a story about kindergartners and words they needed to know before they came to school. i thought i should follow up that post by posting the list. just for your information it is called the Dale-Chall list
Click HERE to see a copy of that list
we had the superbowl on in the background of life today. we dehydrated apples, baked brownies, and played games. we actually didn't sit down and watch any of the game until the last quarter. big sister said "mom, football is boring, i don't even know what's happening"
little brother said "i'm never going to play football"
I kinda told them the basics of football and by the end of the game
big sister said "i love football, when can we go to a game?"
the presidents really are quite funny
on the way to school this morning
big sister said, "mom, i really don't like love songs"
so i changed the station.
then she said, "well i like 'love at home', but all those other love songs on the radio that other people sing, i just don't really like them. I mean like one or two a day is enough for a day but that's it."
I have come to accept the chances of having school release this year for a snow day are about 0% so i was thinking how about another sick day??
Today our school secretary came to my room to ask me how i was feeling and if i planned on being at school tomorrow. I said i was fine other then my nightmare of being attacked by kindergartners. We laughed and i assured her that i would be at school in the morning. Well turns out several teachers are feeling pretty sick and won't be at school in the morning. We also have quite a few students out sick.
I told the secretary she could add my name to the list of sickies if it would mean a SICK DAY tomorrow!!
some days i think of my heroes and think wow, what great women
i aspire to be like them,
thus far in my quest here are a few of the skills i think i have acquired
the ability to look at all sides of an issue
the ability to say just the right thing to get what i want
the ability to sound intelligent enough for people to listen to me
the ability to walk away from a fight i'm not going to win
the ability to stand up for what I believe
the ability to laugh when things don't go the way i feel they should
yes it's very fine being twenty-nine
mom when are we going back to the babysitters?
when dad gets a job.
well has he checked out bettertwinfallsjobs.com?
yes, i'm sure he has
did he find more of what he was looking for?
This is an actually quote from my dream last night. Before you read it, know that i do not agree with it. i feel that a young woman should go to college, learn about herself, her dreams, her desires. she should also make a list of necessary qualities in a spouse long before she gets serous with anyone person. this list should be extensive and comprehensive. Then and most importantly she shouldn't let anyone tell her "what she wants." she should be able to tell the world what she wants with full confidence!!!
"Honey, you think you know what you want, you think you want to go off to college meet a nice guy who will sweep you off out feet, pamper you, and care for you. You don't know what you want. The right guy is right here waiting for you, you may have known him your whole life, but are just to blind or stubborn to see he is the ONE for you."
DON'T listen to them Honey live your dreams!!
this weekend, i went to not one but two nights out with the girls. Book club was great so much laughter!
Saturday night i went out with a friend to celebrate her birthday. we went to dinner then Barnes and Nobles.
I love Barnes and Nobles which got me thinking if i was homeless i think that is where i would spend my days.
ya know that strange feeling you have when you walk out of a movie?
I think i may have figured it out
read this
Things as They Really Are
What do you think?
I've needed to go grocery shopping for a week or so but have had the flu or a headache or volleyball or something that has kept me from getting to town.
so tonight we ate breakfast burritos, without cheese. so sad but still yummy
little brother burrito looked like this
tortilla
eggs & hash-browns
bacon
peaches
sour cream
yes peaches! i explained that he would need to eat it
his reply "i know, i like it like this, see how it's so big? this is how you know it's a Mexican Burrito!!"
OKAY!
He ate it all and loved every bite! silly silly boy
today when the love of my life came to pick up little brother from preschool, we couldn't find little brother anywhere, there were no sticky notes. I of course ran around the school, once again, like a panicked mother, asking everyone if they had seen him. of course no one had. i swear that little boy has an invisibility cloak. i had the Secretary make an all-call through the school nothing. as a last resort (though it should have been the first place i looked) i walked to the back school parking lot where teachers park their cars. and there in the very back seat was the little giggly boy!
the emotion at that moment
today in kindergarten we talked about Larry Lion, the sound he says 'L', the letter he stand for "Ll"
we wrote on the board a list of words that we could think of that start with the letter l
lion, leopard, ladybug, lobster, leg, love, lid, lollipops, liver, lettuce, lighthouse, etc, then I listed off a few more words probably 25 or 30 that start with an L from a list of word that children should know when they enter kindergarten, love, luck, lick, locomotive, lazy, lamp, lantern, long...
when i get to the word "lumber" i just stop and stare at it and think to myself, where would they have learned this word, i don't even use this word, because in my mind i'm thinking "Lumber- some kind of slow ponderous movement" or something like that. I said the word but skipped over any explanation because why do kindergartens need to know this word, i mean yes it's a good word but really kindergartners using the word "lumber", i'd save that challenge for another day.
one of my favorite and least favorite things about kindergarten is that i get to do everything twice, i had planned on looking up the definition of "lumber" between my classes but didn't get to it during my lunch hour so this experience repeated itself, causing me more frustration as to why the word "Lumber" would be considered a common word for a five year old.
so this bothered me for a while and after school i sat down at the computer and typed the word lumber into the search box, before i even pushed enter i knew what it was!
HELLO!!! call me blonde if you will it was one of those days!
turns out one of three little pigs built his house out of lumber (aka-sticks)
i guess it's not that far out of a word for kindergartners to know
i was gonna post a picture of my hot date Saturday night
i was gonna write something funny about what the presidents said when i picked them up
i was gonna rant and rave
i was gonna say something profound
i was gonna make you laugh
i was gonna make you cry
i was gonna up date my blog
but well it didn't happen
