Merry Christmas

My Aunt Terry gave these hats to the boys and then a pink one to Miss O. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our house to yours!!

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it....OH NO!!!

Brody decided that there is no reason to wait for snow. He wanted a white Christmas...now! I was decorating for Christmas and I had gotten out my Nativity scene. It is stored in the little styrofoam balls. I walked around the corner and saw him sitting in the middle of this mess. He had the greatest look on his face which made the mess a lot easier to deal with. I have most of it vacuumed up, but I am sure I will continue to see little white styrofoam until Christmas of 2020!

First grade

I have not abandoned the blogging world, I just have no time to sit down and blog. I would love to say that it is because we have been wildly busy doing amazing and fabulous things. In all reality it is because I eat, sleep, and breath school. If it is not homework for my master's, or doing Haden's homework, than it is for my own classroom. I LOVE LOVE LOVE being a first grade teacher. I have a classroom full of 24 of the most adorable, sweet, and innocent students in the world. However, there are many of them, so I have to constantly be on my toes. Being my first year at first grade, I am learning just like they are! Classroom management is a whole different thing with 24 five year olds. I am used to 3-8 third through fifth graders. I spend my day teaching reading and math, tying shoes, finding crayons, and zipping coats, but I would not change it for the world. Plus, they just say the cutest things!!! I posted on my facebook several months ago about teaching first grade being good on the confidence. I have been told that I am skinny, beautiful and gorgeous. Are they not the best!!! I am get to hear some of the funniest things. I think that the best thing that I have heard yet was a response to a question. We had read a little reader about a group of kids that put on a show. The show they put on had a big bad wolf that wanted to eat dinner. The wolf went to the first house made of sticks and blew the house down and there was a little pig. No, I am not retelling you the three little pigs. The wolf went to the second house were he blew down the house of a crocodile! and the last house was that of a lion and the big bad wolf ran away scared because both animals could eat him. I had asked the kids to share what animal they would want to be if they were in the story. I said that I wanted to be a porcupine because the wolf could not eat through my quills. I had comments such as a snake because the wolf would be scared, a tiger because it would eat the wolf and so on. I get to the last little girl and her response was a mermaid. Not understanding I asked her to explain. Her response, "mermaids are beautiful animals and the wolf would think that so he would want to date me. A wolf won't eat somebody that he is dating!" Well........good point! I am certainly learning how to control my facial muscles!

Commercials

Do you ever watch tv and see that one commercial that makes you laugh! I saw this commercial for the first time the other day. I laughed so hard at this. I am not sure why I thought it was so funny, because it is kind of wrong in many ways, but it still cracks me up!!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did and please stay away from your child's fish bowl!

Mass Chaos!

Do you ever look at other people and wonder how they do it??? I do!!! I see other mothers out there that manage to have a clean house, clean kids, clean laundry, dinner on the table, go to work, and still seem to manage to have time for family and friends! I would love to know how they do it! I have been living in chaos since the summer started! My house is a disaster, my homework is piling up, the laundry mountain is growing, and I feel like I have NO TIME!! I have a friend that had a baby a couple of weeks ago. I have yet to see this little guy. Not because I have not been invited or that they live in another town, but because THERE IS NO TIME!!!! To this mother.....please PLEASE do not think I am avoiding you! I just have not made it over!
I keep thinking that things will slow down, which I am sure that they will....in another 16 years when Brody is off to college. In the meantime, I am working on just making it through the day and continuously thanking God for every blessing that He has blessed me with. I may feel overwhelmed, but I also feel truly blessed to have a house even though it is messy, kids that are healthy and busy, a career that I love, and friends with growing families, and family that is close!

Kindergarten and First Grade

It was a day of firsts for Haden and I a couple of weeks ago. We both had our FIRST day back to school. Haden started Kindergarten and I started my first day of teaching 1st grade. We were both exhausted by the end of the day and slept in on that following Saturday. It was nice to take Haden to school with me! When school is over, he just walks down to my room or plays with some of the other kids whose moms or grandma's work at the school. It has worked out really well!
I have 23 students and they are a GREAT group. I am a pretty lucky teacher! I am really liking this change that I have made. It is certainly different than teaching special education, but I am adjusting! I miss my old students but I am busy keeping up with 6 and 7 year olds instead!
Haden is in Mrs. Hundley's class this year. She is also a friend of mine, so Haden is learning that he should probably not call her, "mom's friend" any more! I have also explained to him that he should not call her Heather either, even if that is her first name! He is loving it and thinks it is great that he takes his lunch and sits next to his friend Brayden. But best of all, he has 3 recesses!! I am happy that he is talking to his teacher and friends! :)

Great Wolf Lodge

Wyatt and I took the boys to the Great Wolf Lodge at the very beginning of August. We had a great time! The last time the boys stayed in a hotel, Brody was 3 months old! So the boys LOVED the hotel! Whenever anyone would ask Brody about the little trip, Brody would tell them that there were beds there!
The boys have turned into little fish over the summer so they loved being in the water and going down the slides. The liked to stand (at a good distance away) and get splashed by the huge bucket of water. It would dump GALLONS of water down on the people below. After we all swam, we got our clothes changed and introduced the boys to the arcade world. Skeeball was a little difficult for the boys. We had balls going EVERYWHERE! We then whacked a mole, which mommy loves. I seem to have gotten better with age! But the day could not be complete without a racing game!