This weekend was simply amazing ( Read more... )

I should have sprayed the whole room down with lysol before I left Friday!

I had 8 kids out Monday, 7 Tuesday, 6 Wednesday, 5 Thursday and 6 Friday.  Four of them were out all week.  Two of them were out Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday then came back on Thursday (Valentine's Day) with notes from their parents saying they were fine, all over their ( Read more... )

 So, today my Mary Wash ID card snapped in half when I was attempting to use it as an ice scraper to clear off my car so I could go to work when Walts should have cancelled because there was lots and lots of ice.....

I'm sad about that.....

Also, my kids were a bunch of whiney babies today.  I have no cryers in my class (praise God) but today I had ( Read more... )

*Scene: we are lined up to go to lunch.  I am standing at the front of the line, asking someone in the back of the line to take his hands out of his pants.  The line leader this week is a student who does things very much on impulse, not realizing at first that maybe he shouldn't have done them.*

2nd kid in line: "MISS KILBY!!" 
Me: *looks from the ( Read more... )

"Miss Kilby, I can smell your skin!!!"
"You can, huh?  Well, does it smell good?"
"Yes!"

"When I grow up, I'm going to kiss my sister and marry her!"

(Me): "What is under your skin, inside of you?"
"Heart!"
"Bones!"
"Blood!"
"Jesus!"

(This particular student often says 's' sounds as 'sh')
"Miss Kilby, can I sit on your lap?"

"I ate it!!!" (Don't remember what ( Read more... )

So, Christmas and New Year's review in bullet form:

- went home
- relaxed (and didn't tie anyone's shoes but my own!)
- Christmas with the fam (grandparents, mom, aunt, sister)
- played with my 12 cats ^_^  (they are all fat, well, all but two)
- got an ipod nano, it's pretty cool
- came back to the apartment with Wendy for a few days, played her new ( Read more... )

So, I'm terrible at posting updates on here.... maybe I should just go back to stalking all my friends.  ^_~

School has been going good the last few weeks, my kids are excited about Christmas and Hanukkah, but they are generally behaving well (I think it may have something to do with those seasonal parental threats of 'Santa is watching!').  Anyways ( Read more... )

Let it be known to one and all that I love Samantha Blackburn.   For reasons far too numerous to count.

That is all citizens, as you were.

So I had a pretty bad week.  I'm not gonna go into the details, but just know it was really really crappy.  Anyways, I was chilling out watching Meerkat Manor on the couch tonight and one of the main critters (won't say who, on the off chance someone else actually watches it and doesn't know) died.  I started crying.  Now, usually when one of ( Read more... )

So, the kids are doing good and work is fine, but really, when you spend 50 hours a week in school it's not what you want to talk about when you finally get away.  So instead, here is how my weekend shaped up.  ^_~

On Friday, Matt and his friend Billy brought me a rocking chair for my classroom!!!  I am soooo excited about that!  They also brought a ( Read more... )