Category: Teaching

Today wasn’t bad. No, not by any means. Don’t think I’m such a priss that I can’t appreciate kindness and generosity when I see it. Children are particularly sweet when they know it’s your birthday. They understand the giddyness of anticipation that they feel when they grow another year...

Today is the 57th and final day of what has been a mercilessly long stretch of school days without a break. Now those of you loyal readers out there who are not in the teaching profession (all two of you) please allow me to state my case before you...

Anyone ever feel like their mind might just explode? School started last week, actually, students started last week and we started the week before. So far, so good… except for this feeling like i’m juggling hundreds of balls in the air and i’m about to drop them all. I...

You know that Staples commercial, the one where the father is pushing the cart through the store singing “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” while the kids drag their feet behind him. That’s my husband’s favorite commercial. Me on the other hand, I tend to get a...

Mob mentality + children + aluminum cans = YIKES! Don’t laugh, this was quite embarassing. We were having an aluminum can drive to raise awareness about the importance of recycling. Yesterday was the last day of the drive and we had a whole bunch of cans in a bag...

Today was a professional day. As much as I dearly love my children, it’s nice to have a day without them now and then so I can get some work done without remembering that I have to ring the bell or take lunch duty. During our professional training discussion,...

Today’s journal topic in my language class was Tell me about something you’ve done for someone else. I only had two conditions for the response. The first was that it could not be something that someone had asked you to do, it had to be out of the goodness...

I love surprise days off. Not that this was a total surprise. I mean, Monday is in fact Martin Luther King Day and I knew I had it off. I just didn’t realize that the holiday Monday was this coming Monday. And this is comming right when I reallllllly...

Nevermind the crack headedness of the previous post. If you’ll just go to your nearest window and look outside you’ll notice that it’s a full moon right now. It is scientifically proven that full moons make children into posessed demons. I know what you’re thinking, “There’s no such study!”...

After a couple of fairly crap filled weeks, I finally stumbled upon what has been, atleast so far, a pretty decent day. Here’s what happened: Rolled out of bed late, showered and did my nails. Since it was a professional day I got to wear jeans and flip flops–...