Snow Day Finally

We spent a nice long weekend at Ian and Shannon's house. We stayed at a different hotel only 10 minutes away. It was really nice and we all benefited from the pool and hot tub. I was not feeling my best a touch of stomach flu maybe. But we still had a great time. The boys are so good and Talia is just a little peanut. So cute. We taught I & S how to play "cover your assets" and Ian won big time. We had fun. ( He does not usually win card games).

Our flight home was good and I went to school the next day still not feeling up to parr. (More like throwing up!) I made it thru the day and the kids were great.

Today is a snow day. We have about 4 inches outside and it was coming down hard with big fat flakes. It was beautiful. Now they are just piddly little flakes. Very unusual to have snow this late in the winter. I love the snow when I do not have to go out in it. And I am prepared! I am making bread today, pot roast, finish up some sewing, crocheting, and clean my house since we were not here this weekend. Yea Snow. We may have one tomorrow because of the temperatures. Really cold. Suppose to get down to 18 degrees! Glad I have nice warm jammies and a great fireplace!

My Sweet Ba-boo

Happy Valentine's day everyone!

Jim and I had a great evening. I made him a nice dinner which include a bar-b-que steak in the rain and wind! It was a candle light dinner and pretty yummy. I even made a cheese cake and drizzled it with dark chocolate and topped it off with real whip cream.

I was feeling pretty sheepish this morning when I opened my card. Dad got me a massage and a facial. I did not get him anything. I did not think we were getting gifts. He said he really liked the dinner so that was good.

The valentine party at school was really nice. I had really good helpers and we got everything done and cleaned up in 30 minutes. WOW! I even got all my valentine thank you's done! Hope everyone enjoyed their day!

Gung Hey Fat Choy

We had our Chinese New Years parade at school and made lots of noise with musical instruments. We had a great time. By the way it is the year of the rabbit!

Eli and Emilee and Ivy are here visiting with us for a few days. It is so nice to have a little one in the house again. She has been sick and so has Eli. Bummer. They are going to leave on Sunday.

We also got a bonus surprise. Aunt TK called and she was working in Vancouver, so she was able to come and visit us for a short time. We bought subway sandwiches and had lunch here at home. Aly came over so we had quite the crowd. It was so fun to see her even for just a short time. She also brought clothes from Leleigh or Ivy. Bonus!! Hopefully she will make it home at a reasonable hour and not a lot of rush hour traffic. Thanks for coming TK.

Church

Today was a long day at church. I was all by myself. I just hate it when Jim is at work. I was seriously thinking of skipping but didn't. I would of felt guilty. I hate our time. It is really bad. Apparently I am not the only one who thinks so because there are not a lot of people who stay for the whole time.

Can't wait to see Ivy, Eli and Em this week. I hope that she has not forgotten about Grandma and Grandpa. Jim has some time off so we should have a good time. Hopefully pictures soon!

Hippy's

I am not even sure how to spell that! I just got back from the Hippy Hippy Shake dance that our school does. In years past it has been the 50's sock hop but they wanted to do something different. The clothes were different, the colors were different, but the noise, the running around were still the same. I always like to go to see some of the kids that I have had in the past, and I think it is important to have teacher support in the community. I can only do it for about a half an hour tho! It was fun to wear bell bottoms, flowers and tiedye! I am glad it is the weekend. I have a few chores to do but for the most part I think I will just take it easy.

found the owner

Today the owner of the handcuffs presented herself! Yes it was a girl! I returned them to her. OH my!

hand cuffs

Today was interesting. One of my little kiddo's brought handcuffs to school....... hmmm. No one claimed them. I guess I will just see what happens now. I did not even know that they sold these to little kids. Must be part of a cop's costume!

It is really cold today with the wind chill. The sky is clear and beautiful and the sun was shinning, but only like 29 with the wind chill. I just wish we had a good snow. I think all the kids should have a good snow day at least once a year. Only problem with that is that we have to make it up in June. We already have10 furlough days and a 7% pay deduction. We don't need to miss any more school. Only 7 more weeks to spring break and only 2 of the 7 are 5 day weeks! Yikes. We are asked to do more and more with less and less.

I have a nice clean smile today! I was able to get into the dentist! I had some sensitivity and was concerned about a cavity. I was declared good! And it was pretty painless.

I have been having some neck problems and I finally went to the Dr. and she told me to get a good massage then sent me to the Physical Therapist who in turn gave me some good exercises. I gotta tell ya I got 2 massages in 2 weeks and it was wonderful! I still go to the chiropracter and that seems to help too.

Tonight I was working on my computer to try to download a youtube video to my jumpdrive. I can not get youtube at school because of screening and I want to show the kids the shadow puppet show. Tomorrow is ground hog day and I want the kids to play with and make hand shadow puppets. I put up a screen and an old small film strip projector out in the hall for the kids to play with. It is a lot of fun for the kids. We do shadows, predicting, graphing, all kinds of stuff. Enough rambling.

Thanks for checking up on me.