yesterday i was bringing the girls to tae kwondo, then to a library program: "mad hatter's tea party." i told them about 15 times that they needed to bring a change of clothes because we weren't coming back after their class. i made sure they all put their bags by the door before lunch. well...10 minutes down the road after we were running 5 ( Read more... )

my friends page is acting up and not working ( Read more... )

this is a conversation i had with the 5th grader i'm watching ( Read more... )

i don't know if i'll manage calling because today is insane. i hope it's a great day, though ( Read more... )

i had a dream last night that some blind guy came to camelot elementary school because he was a famous writer. i think he became blind later in life because i told him what color my pants were. there were a bunch of people around that i don't know in real life, but they were my best friends in the dream. he was going to the prom with me, but he ( Read more... )

dania and james, if you watch nacho libre, tell me who jack black's side kick reminds you of ( Read more... )

there are 4 days of school with the children left, and i don't know if i'll let them live that long ( Read more... )

someone in this county thought it would be a good idea to put an "emotionally disturbed" kid in my class. he came from a center for kids like that to my school. well...they didn't cure him. i took away field day from him because he was disrespectful to our assistant. i, however, am not at his school in the morning, so i had to trust that the ( Read more... )

yesterday afternoon started off with a report of one of my kids spitting at 2 other kids out of his straw. so i brought him to the principal's office and had her explain (for the second time this year) why spitting is bad. you'd think he would have learned it after the spit fight he had with another kid in my class. he wrote apology letters to ( Read more... )

my musical runs for 3 weekends. last weekend, this weekend, and next weekend. at first my mother said that everyone was going to come on a different weekend so that they wouldn't have to get hotel rooms. my grandparents, great aunt and uncle, and them. i said that they were all uninvited if that was the way it was going to be because i couldn't ( Read more... )