Silly video. Tiger talks to us.

Tiger doesn't like the dishwasher. He shows me exactly what he thinks of this at the end of the video. Just watch (and make sure the volume is up). :)

The letter is sealed

I just finished a letter to Chris. It goes in the mail tomorrow. :)

I can't wait til Thanksgiving! We're going to fry a turkey. I know, I know. Not healthy at all but hey, it's the holidays and I'll be sure NOT to weigh in that weekend. ;) I probably won't do that bad though. I'll peel off the skin, how 'bout that?


Four day week this week with the kids. Friday is teacher workday. YAY! I definitely need some organizational time.

I had a really long week this week. 2 observations in one week wears a girl out. Thursday was bad because I had a falling out with my kids in 3rd period. I'm going to have to mend some relationships I guess but at the same time, the kids aren't exactly innocent either even though they'd have you believe otherwise. They apparently went to the counselor and talked about me and said that they felt I was singling them out. Well, if they're going to sit together, and talk loudly and not do any work like I asked repeatedly, OF COURSE they're going to be "singled out". Anyway, gonna see if I can divide and conquer by moving a couple of kids from 3rd period to my 5th period to kind of separate the strong personalities. Hopefully that helps. Fingers crossed.

Just another lazy weekend (at least that's what I want it to be)

Just sitting here typing a little update because I know ya'll are getting bored looking at the same entry for the past couple of weeks.

*Chris goes off to boot camp on Tuesday. I know he says he's not nervous but I know deep down he's a little worried. It probably won't really hit home until he gets there.

*One of my main troublemakers in my class has withdrawn from school due to moving out of state--CELEBRATION!! I'm happy.

*I only have one more real master's class to finish up this semester before I take my spring capstone course before graduation.

*We're enjoying having the extra income from my job. It really lets us relax more and not worry so much about having a little extra to use or to not worry so much about having to pay big bills from the mortgage and whatnot.

*I'm teaching English classes to adults at a local community college every Tuesday and Thursday night for some extra pocket money (about $400 extra every month). The adults are SO much fun to teach! It makes it even better that they want to be there. We had such a good time this past Thursday doing tongue twisters for treats. They gave me 2 Spanish tongue twisters to work on and one guy said that if I could do those close to perfect, he'd bring me chocolate. HA! So cute! These adults are so nice and polite. They've told me they love how patient I am and how kind I am with them in learning this new language. One person did tell me that they wanted me to be harder on them about correcting mispronounced words but I did tell them I did NOT want to be rude and interrupt them. If I correct them too much, it's going to make some people discouraged and not want to talk.

*Kyle's working a lot harder in this first shift position than in his original 4/3 work days, 12hrs a day shift. He's now working M-F, 7-5pm-ish. He says it's a lot harder to get his school work done on this shift because he doesn't have whole days off to get caught up. It's posing a bit of a challenge for him.


Okay, there's an update on what all is happening as of now.

Nice weekend

I had Thursday and Friday off from school. It was great to sleep in. Unfortunately, I haven't done anything work-related.