Cold Wind AGAIN What ?! You're wearing That?

Yep, its me wearing Capri's. And opened-toed shoes. And fake tanner that gives me that orang-y golden glow. (Ha)
I want so desperately for it to be summer with the warm sunshine on my face and that hot feeling you get when you first get in a car (crazy, I know huh?) I live for those few short months that it is warm.
This is one reason I couldn't teach year round school. I need that mental baking that comes from too many days at the pool and watching my own kids (wondering how the paid sitter does it)

So I am pretending that I am warm. I dressed the baby in a cute spring dress with her elmo hoodie over the top.
SIGH SIGH SIGH

Maybe I should take more vitamins I might be low on Vitamin D or C or maybe vitamin S (summer)

Could we at least get some rain out of this?

Menus for the week: week 3 (ish)

Sunday: cheese chrisps and tomato soup- we had gone on a trip down to the valley and we were still recovering that day. We had taken a horse home and that day we chose to break the sabbath and practice with that horse again. For lunch we had jerky, donuts, sunflower seeds and sodas from Brides. It was also fast Sunday, a day that I wished my whole family fasted for then I wouldn't have to cook.

Monday: Grilled BBQ chicken, wheat shells with cream of chicken sauce, french cut green beans ( and surprise the baby ate the green beans a no small feat I tell you) and bread and butter.

Tuesday: Hawaiian haystacks. I took the rest of the chicken and cream of chicken and put it in the crock pot. I will cook rice and make the "stacks" when I get home at 3;30. Scott got called into work for the next 3-4 nights so dinner has to be early. We also have baseball AND wrestling today. Since Scott is working (and I swear he planned it) I have to take the kids to both practices. OH Joy!

Wednesday- something with hamburger meat hopefully in the crock pot (beans?); Kennedy changed dance days to Wednesday. She got promoted up a class after the recital. Her class is from 4 to 5.

Check you later.

All it got me was more trips to the bathroom

Catchy, yet a little inappropriate for a title I think.



I have been exticed and guilted into the spring health challenge. Not that anyone had to twist my arm. I guilted me into it. I recieved a chart by which I was supposed to dutifully fill out each day with how many miles, minutes and calories I was consuming.

I should have marked my acts of kindness, hours of sleep and good, positive thoughts.
Yea, OK. I will have to actually be kind to mark those boxes.



I filled it out for a day and 1/2. And then I put it on my desk and now I don't care to find it enought to look for it.

BUt I am trying to excercise more- like this morning when I should have gotten up at 5 and finally rolled out of bed at 5:45 to excercise except my back was not cooporating well. I am trying to eat better- six times a day.



They say water is good for weight loss so I divided my weight by 2 and then used that number as a guide for how many ounces I should drink in a day. I am trying to drink at least a gallon- 1. becasue that is how much I drink (just deal with it ok) but it gives me a way to leave my room in between classes and I use it when I need a pause in class- I go take a big drink to calm myself.



I am not loosing weight but that might be all the "snacks" I eat with my water and other stupid stuff.



All it is really getting me is more trips to the bathroom, where if you don't move fast enough, I might mow you over. ;)

negativity in my day

I have a person in my life (for only 35 more days- whooo hoo) that every time I see this person he/she (I do this so you wont know the gender or name of said person- heck, maybe I should change the name ot gender neutral like: Chris, or Sam, or Ryan, or Dakota, ) So "Chris" is a negative negative NEGATIVE person. Ev-e-rE-day. Ugghh. Not one thing is good or postive or anything. It is so old. I wonder if you can be addicted to being negative?

There is the potential of seeing this person next year, but it is highly unlikely. I hope not. I think the negativity is catching. At least, that is what I am going to blame my inablility to quit yelling in the morning on...

Or maybe our house is so big that I have to yell to ge any attention.

Romeo has died and they can't tell me WHY

I would love any suggestions from any wanna be teachers, any ex teachers or any current English teachers.
I AM TEACHING ROMEO AND JULIET

ha ha no that is not the problem nor the punch line.... thanks for laughing.
I actually don't mind teaching R&J: have you been to high school lately? It is the same thing, just a 400 year older plot line. Except Shakespeare says it with out LOL, TTYL and OMG's. He actaully has a real vocabulary.

My problem is: I tell them to take notes, I tell them that when I pause to explain something and say "this should be in your notes" that then they are not remembering what they wrote or what I said that was so "important" , which will be on a check quiz the next day or on the end of the Act test.

I can't get them to find enough value in what we are reading to see that R&J is part of our social collective knowledge and that many things that we discuss, laugh at or relate to come from classical stories like R&J. I can't get them to remember from on 24 hour period to another. I had a little success yesterday when we were able to act out the fight scene. But not every scene is "actable" there just isn't action in all scenes.

I don't want to movie them to death, I don't' want to spoon feed them more than I do ( read, pause to explain, give quizzes on the explanations and then... the grades are not great)

any viable non expensive suggestions? Romeo is dying here and they can't tell me why.

Menus Day ... whatever lost track

Last week I tried to start a menu thing but I guess it, like so many of my other endevors, was not planned out. (hello Scott!) We had a super busy week that somehow the effects there of I let roll over to this week.

For 1: I didn't plan menus- no surprise there,
2. I didn't' get all my sale ads situated.
3. I haven't touched the office since the 3 hour clean up. Maybe I need to be mad at Scott being mad at me ;)
So, subsequently,

Sunday: steaks, potatoes, salad
Monday: Bean and cheese burritos
Tuesday: frozen Tony's pizzas or egg/green Chile burros
Wednesday: Pasta bake: rotini noodles smothered in cheese baked til it was bubbly.
Thursday: ?? No clue I know I have some frozen hamburger meat in the freezer so we could have goulash.
Friday: We might go to the valley to get a horse eat on the road. I should put something in the fridge to thaw so I can have a meal ready to cook when we get back on Sunday.

Another Day of Menus and busy days

The next day was Wednesday; As you can tell I am posting on Saturday because the rest of my week was so busy I barely had time to sit down. I got home late from school and didn't have the crock pot clean that morning. Subsequently, I didn't have a dinner. I made breakfast- something I do about once a week. I had plenty of eggs, made waffles, fried bacon and made hash browns from some left over potatoes from Sunday.

I was trying to get out of the house so that I could help with a primary activity. It didn't happen. By the time I had dinner cooked and served it was 6:30. I would have been 30 minutes late and I wasn't sure how long the pizza party would last on a school night anyway.

Per the suggestion the kid at Safeway, I signed up for a Safeway mailer via the internet. Am going to do that for all the stores around.

I should have planned my menus for next week on Wednesday, so that I could take advantage of Wilburs Thursday sale. I didn't get home from RV until 8:30 on Thursday so I missed the sale this week. Still going to bust out menus before Sunday....