Not my favorite thing...

Things usually happen in 3's...

1. Tom got in a car wreck, not his fault, a lady ran into him while he was stopped. He's ok but in typical guy fashion he won't go to the doctor! He says he's fine, only whip lash and his back hurts!!! When he called to tell me about the accident I didn't believe him, because he always tricks me like this, he's a jokester! He started by telling me he was in the hospital and they had to amputate his hand or something so of course I didn't believe him, I can't remember how long it took him to convince me he wasn't playing a joke! Maybe when he started telling me details, I kept saying, "Are you seroious?!" and "Please don't joke." His car has to be in the shop for a few days, the officer tied the bumper up with some sort of police tape. The rental car is a minivan and I got to drive it to work today, heaven! I gave him grief all last night about going to the doctor, to no avail. Instead I had to give him a long massage. I was so tired I fell asleep while I was massaging his legs!!!

2. Another not so fun event happened yesterday when one of my students threw away an orthopedic fork (worth $50) with his lunch. Nobody realized it soon enough so when we finally did the only thing to do was go through the entire schools' lunch trash bags (1,200 students)! 11 bags! Huge bags full of garbage and of course the lunch was tacos...nothing like cholcolate milk and salsa goop! I still have to repress the gag reflex as I think about it. Myself and my awesome assistant principal, went through the trash for 30 minutes! I had gloves on but still got trash juice all over my clothes. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck!!!!! And the worst part is, after all that, we never found the fork!!!

3. I'm just waiting for it! :)


A good thing is the weight off my head thanks to chopping 6 inches off! Thanks Gina! Here's a picture off my laptop...

Insanity....

is losing your camera!!!! I am dying! I can't find it anywhere! That thing is like a third hand to me, glued to me almost everywhere I go, just ask Tom, he hates it! :) Maybe he hid it somewhere? Haha. But if I don't find it soon I will have to beg for a new one! Early Christmas present? Not that I have too much time to blog anymore, but I am going through withdrawals! I feel like I am not journaling if I don't have pictures, like when we put up the Halloween decorations...no pictures. Like when it snowed and the kids were super excited...no pictures.

I seriously don't know how long I can live like this.

I will survive...?

This is my new theme song! Gotta keep a positive attitude or I'll lose the rest of my already failing mind! :)

Good news is that the district approved 2 more aides in my classroom! Hallelujah!!! My principal came in a few times to help me and he really pushed for more help, he's the best! So if anyone wants to work with me...there is a 7hr/day and 4hr/day position. Let me know! The pay could be better but the company is not, we have fun, we rock!

Bad news, for me, is that I have 174 items in my google reader and I am going through blog withdrawals!!! I miss my blogging. I will try to get back into a routine but so far it's difficult to do anything after work, and I work on weekends now too (probably for the next few weeks). So if I am not making comments like I usually do please don't feel bad! I still love ya! :) I am not even done with Breaking Dawn yet! I tried to finish it this week a few nights and fell asleep reading! At 7:30pm! That's how tired I am! I am dying to finish the book, it's my favorite one so far, at least tied with Twilight. I have to tell everyone around me not to talk about it because they're already done! Maybe I can finish this weekend...in between laundry, cleaning, working, playing with the family...

I hope to get some pics up soon, I'm falling behind in my "fun journal". Tom makes fun of me still, how I used to pay attention to him before the blog, and how I can tell him something and the next day he can read it IN DETAIL on the blog...haha. Hopefully I can get back into the routine again.

Bad Day

After working like 80+ hours last week getting ready for school...this is how the first day went without giving too many details...From 5:30 am to 5:30 pm I have not sat down, ate my lunch standing up, and have not had a potty break! I just sobbed on the way home from school today and am having a pity party right now. I love the kids I work with, they are Heavenly Father's special/perfect children, but today was one of the worst days of my teaching career. Maybe because I want everything to be perfect, on top of 5 extremely hard students and only 3 adults to manage those 5 plus 7 more students who just sat around and watched us wrestle with the 5...it was so sad. I will be surprised and overjoyed if my two wonderful aides come back tomorrow!! My principal, who is the BEST, came into the room and asked how our day went...we all broke down. At least I have a great administrator who supports me, my aides, and my students! To say the least I am completely overwhelmed! A few years ago I taught in a very difficult Autism unit and this doesn't even come close to that. Wah, wah, I know, but it does feel good to vent and YES, I do want/need a lot of sympathy here!!!! :)

My own children had a great first day of school and so here they are. They were SO excited to start! My two youngest totally crashed in the car on the way home, poor things! It's such a long day for them!!!

Miracle of miracles, I got out the door at 7am with all 4 kids dressed, fed, hair done, and ready to go!!!

My cuties and my sillies


tired after a long day...

Gas is killing me!

And I don't mean the bodily function! So what do you do when you have a huge vehicle that gets no more than 10 miles per gallon...you don't eat that's what you do! :) OR you don't drive, and that has worked out fine this summer but when school starts in a few weeks...last year I was spending about $400/month on gas and since then gas has doubled in price...so you do the math. *SIGH* So options are

1. sell the van and get a small old sedan to drive to work and whenever we go anywhere as a family we have to take 2 cars or
2. sell the van and get a used minivan but then we may have a car payment which we don't want or
3. just suck it up and keep the bus. (we like our van, it's just expensive to drive!)

(Keep in mind that nobody wants to buy a huge gas guzzling vehicle right now!) What would you do????? And quitting my job is not an option right now and I will be doing a post on that next because we had a really cool experience with that decision!