One of my students just brought me an apple.

I love my job.

I am now in my new classroom recovering from meeting all my new parents. It went well. Now all I have to do is survive Wednesday and I should be fine. I keep reminding myself tht I _Know_ how to do this. But I'm always intimidated at the beginning of the year. It takes me about a week to get over my nerves. I'm also unsure of my new school ( Read more... )

I have made an amazing discovery. My chronic, nearly debilitating back-ache is NOT a side effect of lifting sixteen 25lb toddlers umpteen million times a day. It is, in fact, a side effect of attempting to switch to a hypoallergenic, non-down pillow. My alignment is all wrong; my pillow isn't squishable enough; my back is paying the price. ( Read more... )

I lost my watch. My brand new, totally awsome, very expensive watch. I loved this watch. I've wanted a really nice one for some time. I gave myself permission to spend my birthday money from my dad on something really nice that I really wanted but wouldn't normally buy...and I bought this watch. Which I love. And which I also managed to lose ( Read more... )

All baby books lie ( Read more... )

I'm not sure I have it in me to make it until Friday. I hate winter. That is to say, I love snow and cocoa and stew and fuzzy socks, but days upon days of shivering in damp, sunless limbo wears me down, despite my lovely medication. I can't focus. I can't think. And I begin to truly believe that everyone loathes me. No matter what they tell ( Read more... )

We've been reading the Miss a book of myths from around the world. And she's loved it. She talks about it, retells it to her stuffed animals and impresses her teachers to no end because she knows who Baba Yaga is, why George slew the dragon, and the story of how bees got their stings. Some of these stories are more violent or vengeful than your ( Read more... )

Saturday, November 17th from five to whenever (but probably not obscenely late) I'll be hosting a dinner/hang out time for the Miss. Her very first "invite your friends" birthday party is that morning, but I know people have gifts or just want to eat cake...So come over and eat cake (gifts are DEFINITELY not required--or even suggested really). ( Read more... )

Thanks so much to everybody who expressed concern and double thanks to everybody that worked to find a replacement. Apparently another child had taken him home accidentally. (Still no news on missing George #1, but I'll take this one with joy and rapture.)

I have just spent $40 I do not have. And I'm fabulously, incredibly, orgasmically grateful to have done so. What, you ask, did I purchase ( Read more... )