Well, the streak is over. Emily's quest for 13 years of perfect attendance lasted 7 days. She had a virus and couldn't go to school yesterday with a fever. She was so bummed, even tho she didn't have anything brown to wear. (They are wearing the "color of the day" to learn the color sight words.) I didn't tell her that all the kindergarteners were wearing pirate hats and eye patches when I went to pick up Katherine. She did get to wear her black Harding Bison t-shirt today and was happy to know that pink was coming on Friday. So as you can tell she is TOTALLY immersed in her school experience. She can open her milk, falls asleep during naptime and is so tired by bedtime. (BTW she never knew about perfect attendance--there is a girl in Kat's class who hasn't missed a day yet--altho I did grumble about this kid at a field trip in 3rd grade when she had pneumonia and a fever of 102--argh)
All the girls are settled into their new schedules. Everyone seems to like their teachers. I have been to 2 Open Houses and really like what I saw too. Tonight I go to Kindergarten and then the high school. I like being able to put a face with Hannah's teachers. Several we knew from Jess's days at THS.
Katherine started volleyball last week. She hasn't played on a real team before. It took her 3 trys to get the ball served overhand and over the net. She looked like she had been playing for years. It will be fun to watch her. I took her to the dr yesterday to get her "flesh eating virus" checked. He said that it was healing properly and she will be fine. We still have to put the antibacterial cream in our noses, twice a day until our 6 weeks are over. Fun. He did call our house the Al-Qaida of germ warfare. Such a funny guy!
Jess is doing well in her HU world. At last report she was really excited about her classes. She thinks this will be a good semester. She has to take notes in French in her French Civilization class. Wow! She says she mixes in some English too. She has been to the lake a couple times, that's important, too. :) I'm sure she is still finding long lost old friends (from last semester) to greet and hug. She has befriended the daughter of my dear college friends, Karen and Gilbert. Miss Rachel is a freshman and surprised us with her choice of HU. It is so fun to have these 2nd generation connections. Jess and Rachel haven't seen each other in 10 years, but connected right away and could end up pals--so fun!!
Time to move on with life. I'm totally LOVING these days by myself. The school buses return way too soon! I go back and forth between getting a ton done around and here and not much. I am used to working under pressure and interruptions. Never knew the time could slip by so easily.... Actually, I'm going to finish my substitute teaching application and turn that in. Hopefully it will take a few weeks to get the background check done and I'll have a little more time to get some stuff done. :) In the meantime, there's always my real passion in life---LAUNDRY!! and a scrapbook date tomorrow. :) I had lunch out twice last week with girlfriends. Nice! Too bad I can't afford to just lunch and scrap. :)
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If you're so passionate about laundry...would ya' consider driving 9 hours to do mine? :-) I think I try to make our laundry days stretch over 2 weeks! ha!
I'm hoping our routines settles down soon. We should be volleyballing tonight, but the game was cancelled....so, we have an unexpected Tuesday night off.
I told Matt, "you get to cook tonight"...so....he called Domino's!
I killed my 3 beautiful, big goldfish in my pond today! I'm in mourning....I guess I put too much clarifier in the water. I'm sad and quite a bit bummed out. They were 3 years old and I was very proud of their growth.
OK....I think I need to lift my spirits and read a book. :-) Enjoy your days. Love ya, Pattie
Ya never know if the perfect attendance streak will hold.
Jared had perfect attendance all
through middle school and high school, then his Sr. year, just a few days before graduation, he decided 'skip day' would be his way to rebel....guess what?...no
perfect attendance pin for him..
whatdya do? Enjoy the alone time.
KY FOLK
Hey can your "jock" of the family come and help Alissa with her overhand serve???? She could use some extra practice!!
Hey can your "jock" of the family come and help Alissa with her overhand serve???? She could use some extra practice!!
oopps..... sorry....I was impatient and pushed enter too many times
I answered your email and now am commenting! I decided I would answer on yours....I know it's fun to check to see who has written on mine...but, alas....only Kris knows the secret to writing comments. If I give you tips to substituting, can you give a workshop on how to comment on people's blogs? ha!
About substituting....follow the teacher's plans. Don't do something different and don't listen to the kids tell you what they think they want you to do. Of course, if your in middle school or higher, the rules are different for the younger grades. Be consistent and smile.
How's that? :-)
Thanks, Pattie babe on the subbing comments. Middle school subbing scares me to death, but my friend the ass't principal said she'd only give me good classes, so we'll see. Still way scary.
I bet you have a ton more readers on your blog than commenters. I know the girls comment on their friend's sites ALL THE TIME, so I comment on my favorites. I also comment on their sites. They love it--not! I still don't know how to add pictures. My sister is glad about that since she is sure that we are going to be stalked and killed because of this boring blog.
You guys must have more clothes than we do, to make a laundry day only every 2 weeks!! Sheesh! We'd naked and shivering in our skivies! Not a pretty picture. :)
I never had perfect attendance due to all those fishing trips we took DURING the school year. Crazy I know, but it was worth it. :-)
~Tawn
Tawn,
I never knew you got to go fishing. That must have been before my time. I remember your dad taking the boys from time to time. Prob not often enough for them--lol. The perfect attendance is not a big deal, and H is the only one holding for this year as Kat and Ab both were home this week, too. yay.
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