Dips: Thanks for the reprieve!
I promise to get my act together by the 25th! I wish you weren't all the way in Italy. If you were in Connecticut, I'd hire you to be my personal trainer and motivator!
Angie: It is tough imagining 9 year olds in a middle school setting. I'm glad that it worked out to keep them somewhat separated. Do you remember when schools used to be K-8? That is how it was when I went to school. The older kids looked out for the younger ones. The 7th and 8th graders didn't seem to be quite so crazy as they were going through puberty. I seems like our society makes kids grow up faster now and get involved with dangerous activities earlier than when I was a kid. I sound like such an old lady! In the school I taught in my first year, we had 6th graders getting pregnant!
Where are you going for Christmas?
Kempy: Isn't it weird how alcohol can turn things ugly? My dad was a mean drunk (he was an alcoholic until I was 15, and he went to rehab.) I am a silly/giddy drunk. I just crack people up. My husband hardly drinks, so we've never clashed while drinking. I'm really thankful for that, because I have some horrible childhood memories...nothing physical, just upsetting.
Holly: You have a wonderful husband!
I would drop dead if mine spoke so sweetly to me!
Noelle: My first year of teaching, I had a boy who kept trying to leave the classroom. I had to sit on a stool in front of the door and teach from there. He would bite and scratch my hand in an effort to get my hand off the door knob. By February, he was placed in special ed, but those 6 months with him really ruined it for the rest of the class. All of this mainstreaming and inclusion can be so disastrous for the other children who are capable, willing, and trying to learn something. But when you have someone who is constantly disruptive, it is impossible to teach effectively. In pre-k, it is a pain, but at least academically there isn't as much for the "normal" kids to lose. And in the process, sometimes they gain tolerance. When it is damaging is Kindergarten and up. Okay, I'll get off my soap box!
Hi Tonya, Cosmo, GEM, Emily, Sandy, & Chris!
I'm a naughty, stressed out girl right now.
Bear with me right now. Once I get into my routine, I should be okay. Honest. Not knowing what I will be doing this year is driving me nuts!
I'm trying to leave it in God's hands, but I'm much better at giving that advice to others than I am at following it myself.
Is anyone else watching Shania Twain on NBC right now? I'm not watching her, but my husband is lusting after her. At least she isn't dressed like a dominatrix. I guess she has mellowed since childbirth. I am just so jealous of her. I will never look that good, no matter how thin I get. I hate it that my husband has the HOTS for her. Oh well,
Summer