Gobble, Gobble!

Here's hoping everyone gets to indulge themselves - eat all your favorite dishes surrounded by the people you love... and maybe hate. :-)


Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Thank You

Thank you so much to the sweet bloggers that left kind comments regarding my last post. I'm feeling much better, except for a lingering cough, I think I'm going to live. ;-)

This is what I've been up to since school is out for the week and I can think straight once again.
I'm attempting the Dashing wrist warmers. Since I'm using size 9 needles, they're using up a lot of yarn and turning out a tad too big and for that reason, I decided to bind off at the 75th row. Now I have to figure out the thumb.

Also, as you can see in the picture, I've been looking through my knitting magazines for cute hats and scarves to make. I'm overwhelmed...there are so many to choose from.

I hope everyone is traveling safely tonight or enjoying prepping up a storm for tomorrow's feast. My goal is to make a pumpkin pie tomorrow, but I'm guessing it should be tonight since the turkey will be taking up room in the oven. Hmm, gotta figure that one out fast.
No matter, I have a NY Cheesecake variety box in the freezer ready as backup.

ttfn :-)

101.2

Something is in the air in Room 28. Everyone is coming down with something and it came down on me. I can't seem to shake this fever, which has been lingering for days now.
I wish someone would design a decent A/C system that would keep both attached classrooms equally cool or warm. No such luck.

This assignment is really kicking my butt and because of a few "events" that have happened in the past days, I am worn out. I thought I would share a few tidbits from my "experience" so far.

1. Believe it or not, a marble WILL fit inside a first graders nose.

2. If you have gummy bears, kids will jump through hoops.

3. When the teacher steps on dog poo, the students automatically get extra recess. To quote one of the boys, "You're the best teacher ever!", as I stood there with an icky shoe.

4. You can't let a first grader see you sweat.

5. Never put your child's mental health survey in the hands of stranger. To clarify, a parent expected me to fill out a questionnaire to help a therapist determine her son's level of ADD. I knew the child for less than 9 days. It would have been completely irresponsible and a disservice to the child's mental heath if I had done it.

6. Little kids have BIG hearts.

Pray for my speedy recovery because I can't think straight anymore. :-)

What?!?!?!

I have very few words about last night's Project Runway fiasco. This is worse than the time Jeffrey, the-tatoo-dude won a few seasons ago. Lifetime/Project Runway lost me as a viewer.
I think MichaelK of dlisted.com said it best on his blog when he wrote about Wretchen. Warning: this article is NSFW.

As far as I'm concerned Mondo was and is the clear winner!

That is all.

Through the Eyes of a 6 year old

I've been somewhat busy lately, but not too busy to post, so I'm not sure what my excuse is... this time. :-}
For the past week, I've spent time with a class of 6 and 7 year old students. Before starting this assignment, I was informed there were a few handfuls among the cute bambinos, and there were, but they were manageable... probably the reason I came home exhausted on Friday, but I love it.
Looking at the world through the eyes of a 6 year old is pretty darn fascinating.
The school is located in a neighborhood with a few questionable areas and on several occasions students have shared stories with me about burglaries and violence.
The other day, for one of their writing assignments, the students had to write about, and share, what they want to be when they grow up. Most of the students wanted to be teachers. We also had a doctor in the house, a soldier, we even had the future President of the USA (he wants to make the rules... can't say I blame him), and not surprisingly, there were quite a few police officers among them.
I thought I would share a paper written by one of San Diego's finest and future Police Officers, Officer Alex... in the year 2024, of course.
His paper is a little hard to read (click on pic), but he basically wrote that he wanted to be a police officer so he could have a gun and a telephone. The telephone part made me laugh, but...
Later that day, he shared with me a story about a break-in at his house. He told me they stole his Wii and dvds. I felt horrible for him and his family. No one should ever have to come home and find out their safe place had been invaded by a stranger, especially a child. But, it wasn't until later that I made the connection as to why he wanted to become a police officer. He talked about it and he wrote about it. I call that self-therapy.
The next day he came to school in good spirits and informed me his parents were going to buy him a new Wii. :-)
Though this story was a bit of a downer in the beginning, it has a happy ending with a bit of humor. When I looked at his drawing a little closer, I couldn't help but notice the police officer he drew was catching a thief at the neighborhood donut shop! Yumi donuts!
You gotta love this kid.

Have a safe and happy week. :-)

Happy National Coffee Day!

photo courtesy of Starbucks.com

Need I say more?

Have a great Java Day!