another christmas is past. it's a strange christmas break, but overall pretty good. it was a great evening with my family on christmas eve and a nice morning. i got good stuff and got some good time in with my family. i got to go out hat shopping with my brother jeff and got to go to lunch afterwards ( Read more... )

there are moments - like buying a christmas tree, or seeing lights on a house like a gingerbread house, or getting/ giving gifts - when flashes of feeling like it's christmas is really around the corner. a really special moment hit me today when reading liz's christmas car. THIS was christmas, i said to myself. her gift was cute, but the words ( Read more... )

when they announced last year that they were going to knock down our csc and renovate it, i was not so sure i liked the plan. i hate change, and i didn't really want to see our church, the one i had grown up in for the past 12 years go ( Read more... )

you know, it's really sad when you have to ask your cousin on how to communicate with your brother and how to get him to see you one-on-one with you MAYBE once a month. what is sadder is that i have no hope of gaining such time. and i know its not personal, but it doesn't make me miss them any less.

it just added to the very bad no good day.

jill ( Read more... )

"WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 -The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops voted overwhelmingly today to support initiatives based on traditional teachings that call for gay and lesbian Catholics to remain celibate and for married Catholics to reject artificial contraception ( Read more... )

there are times this month, several, when i have really questioned whether i have it in me to be a teacher. i wonder what everyone feels when they go home. i wonder if everyone's 8th graders are as mean as mine are. i wonder if everyone hates social studies as much as my kids seem to do on an on and off basis ( Read more... )

after monday, i didn't think it could get any worse ( Read more... )

i swear after this i'm doiing work ( Read more... )

the routine is the same every day. 5 am wake up, dressed, check messages, and downstairs. make coffee, make breakfast, make lunch.sip coffee. put the dishes in the dishwasher, go uptsairs to brush teeth. downstairs to slip out the door. it's pitch black in the house, dead quiet. mom sleeping, dad working or sleeping. it's usually dark when i ( Read more... )