Life In a Small Town

A Picture a day for 365 days...a year's worth of fun! Oh man..where did the week go? Seems like there was something everyday this week. I didn't even make it here to post anything during the week...so I guess it must've been busy! Let me think back over what I did.... 261/365 Sunday, Sept 19 CHURCH DAY I love singing in the choir 262/365 Monday, Sept 20 STARTING WEEK 5 AT SCHOOL This week's spelling pattern...short of families (og, ot, op, ob) (after-school tutoring also started today) 263/365 Tuesday, Sept 21 COLLABORATION DAY Each week, our 1st grade team (all the teachers, principals, reading recovery teachers) meet for 40 minutes to collaborate. 264/365 Wednesday, September 22 TODAY's READING OBJECTIVE: Sequencing 265/365 Thursday, September 23 PIPP NIGHT Parental Involvement Prescription Program-- Parents can come on Thursday evenings to check out materials to use at home to help their children: books, manipula...

A Picture a day for 365 days...a year's worth of fun! Just an ordinary average life of an ordinary average girl! 254/365 Sunday, Sept 12 FAMILY LUNCH AT OUR HOUSE DAY My M-I-L came over to eat. We fried deersteak, made mashed taters and italian green beans. It was a successful meal. 255/365 Monday, Sept 13 FIRST CHEER PRACTICE DAY a little unorganized, but it came together 256/365 Tuesday, Sept 14 DEAD SNAKE IN THE HALLWAY AT SCHOOL DAY nothing poisonous, thank goodness, but yucky all the same (someone had smooshed him by the time I took the picture) 257/365 Wednesday, September 15 DEER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD DAY (this is common, they are always out in someone's yard eating, or darting across the street in front of you as you drive) 258/365 Thursday, September 16 FIRST PTO MEETING OF THE YEAR 3rd graders had the program this month. A patriotic theme. 259/365 Friday, September 17 RECESS DUTY DAY 260/365 Saturday,...

What’s the Thursday 13? The Thursday 13 is a weekly meme with a simple theme: each Thursday you blog a list of 13 things. What kind of things? Any kind! Just come up with a list theme and run with it. One week you may list “13 things on my mind” and maybe the next week you’d list “my top 13 favorite movies”. Or maybe just go through the alphabet--“13 Things I Love that begin with the letter A”, etc. That gives you 26 weeks of ideas! Whatever is on your mind. Today my 13 things are....things I wish I could change (I'm not gonna get political/worldly on ya..I get too much negative feedback when I do. Keeping this strictly personal) 1. my bank account. It definitely needs to be a lot fatter 2. my daughter's cheering schedule. She's booked for the next 8 Saturdays, which means she can't go to her dad's any of those weekends....and 4 of those games are out of town...and I really do not do the whole traveling sports mom thing well! 3. my feeling that I've disappoint...

Today is 10 on Tuesday! I missed yesterday's Monday Memory, so the one I thought of will just have to wait til next week. Today's Tuesday 10 is ..... 10 things you have to do today. 1. Get Molly up in about 15 minutes. 2. Get ready for school. 3. Pack my lunch 4. Go to school. 5. Teach 1st grade. 6. Type up the PTO minutes from the last meeting. 7. Start on lesson plans for next week. 8. Take Molly to cheer practice. 9. Pick up supper to bring home after cheer practice (thank goodness for 1/2 price burger Tuesday at Sonic!) 10. Grade papers and get ready for tomorrow. Wow...that was pretty easy. Not a busy day today! I kinda like that. So..what does the day hold for you?

A Picture a day for 365 days...a year's worth of fun! 247/365 Sunday, Sept 5 PLAYING IN THE HAY MEADOW DAY Hubby has the piece of land that he leases out for someone to grow and harvest hay on. He also hunts on it, and on occasion we take the dogs out there to run wild. They had a fun time, but wore out sooner than we expected! 248/365 Monday, Sept 6 STAY LATE AT SCHOOL TO GET STUFF DONE (and finally got papers up on that board!) 249/365 Tuesday, Sept 7 SOMEONE NEEDS ATTENTION DAY Please won't somebody play with me??? 250/365 Wednesday, September 8 TORNADOS ALL AROUND DAY 251/365 Thursday, September 9 MY LIFE JUST GOT EVEN BUSIER DAY Molly joined cheerleading. 252/365 Friday, September 10 JUNIOR AUXILIARY's SPAGHETTI SUPPER NIGHT (our big annual fundraiser to raise scholarship money) 253/365 Saturday, September 11 HOMECOOKED MEAL DAY chicken and rice casserole Just another week in the life.... ...

You know you're getting old when the music you grew up with starts getting called "classic" or "the oldies". I seem to amaze my children when I know all the songs in a movie we're watching, or when they tell me of some "great new song", and it's a remake of somehing I knew as a kid. "Everything old is new again" seems to be an especially true sentiment for music. Growing up, I remember my mother playing records all.the.time! She loved music. Rock music mostly. (or what she considered rock back then...more pop really.) I knew all the words to such albums as and My dad was more of a gospel lover. Every Sunday morning as we got ready for church, he'd put on one of these albums. (and I do mean ALBUMS) (this one was one I really loved...) I was more into "hip" music. Some of my fave albums were and I remember knowing every song on this "golden oldie...

What’s the Thursday 13? The Thursday 13 is a weekly meme with a simple theme: each Thursday you blog a list of 13 things. What kind of things? Any kind! Just come up with a list theme and run with it. One week you may list “13 things on my mind” and maybe the next week you’d list “my top 13 favorite movies”. Or maybe just go through the alphabet--“13 Things I Love that begin with the letter A”, etc. That gives you 26 weeks of ideas! Whatever is on your mind. Today's post for me, is 13 things that are on my mind right now. This is a busy week for me, a busy time of year really. I seem to be waking up in the middle of the night lately and not being able to go back to sleep. This morning, I slept straight through til 4:30am, but have been awake ever sine (I normally don't get up til 6:00, so this is new for me.) so...I thought, while I'm up, maybe I can purge my mind of what may be causing me inner anxiety. So here goes: 1. Lesson Plans---as a teacher for the past 20 years,...