Friday Night

Today was a good day for Steve.  Amelia took him to Grandma and Grandpa's this morning on her way to Pierce City.  Steve and Grandpa watched The Price Is Right, and Millionaire.  Steve also took a long nap in the morning.  Grandma spoiled him with a big breakfast, lunch and snacks.  She made coffee cake, not Cowboy Coffee Cake but Steve said he liked this new one better.  I told him to bite his tongue.  There is no better coffee cake than Cowboy coffee cake.  Reminds me of a Seinfield about Dregs Coffee Cake.  I picked him up after school.  He was ready to come home and rest in his bed.  I know he had a nice time there and they enjoyed having him.  Tonight G/G are going to the Ernte Fest with Tim and Deb.  Glad it is them.  It was so hot today.  I guess it just means you need to hydrate more.  If beer is the only liquid, you just have to drink it.  :)  We are just hanging out at home.  We are watching our Friday night shows on survival.  We will be ready if we are stranded in the rain forest, or the desert.  My guess is that Steve will be totally crashing soon.  It is already 8:30 so he is up later than I thought he would be.  He did not have nausea today, but I really pushed that kind of medicine.  Hopefully, he will rest well tonight so he will have an OK day tomorrow.

My first day at school was alright.  No big dramas, which is nice.  I have about 112 kids spread over 5 hours.  We just got to know each other today and will hit it hard Monday.  We have new texts so I am excited about jumping into them.  I am also doing my journals differently so that is exciting too.  I know how exciting grammar can be.  The kids were great.  I told them about Steve so they would know why I have to miss the days I miss.  They were very understanding and several told me that they were going to be praying for us.  That's the nice thing about 6th graders, they are still young enough that they can like you and still be cool with their friends.  I will try to keep you posted on the great minutes of the day and the funny things they say.  My funny today was in one of the student's writings.  They had to write about the challenges of being the President of the US. It was a pretest so that I could evaluate their writing to see how difficult my year would be.  One student wrote several things in the paragraph and then added, "That is all I can think of so this is the end of my paragraph.  Oh, wait a minute, I thought of another one. It would be a challenge to decide if were were to go to war..."  I always think it is funny when the students talk to me in their writings.  It is a hard thing for the students not to do.  OK, I realize that this was probably not as funny to you as it was to me.  Sorry.  I will try to do better in the future.