Whirlwind....

Wow, we've been so busy around here! Some days I feel like I can't even catch my breathe! Today was one of those days I spent running around with my head cut off!

It's been so nice outside, we've enjoyed spending time out in the yard doing yard work. We planted four new trees this weekend...I love them! They are all trees that have pink blossoms on them. I hope they do well in the Nevada dirt. I miss Washington at this time of the year, and all the apple blossoms!

McKayla and Camron are spending the week with us, Mike and Amanda are in New Orleans for a mine rescue competition. We've had alot of fun with them, except at bedtime when all they want to do is talk and jiggle.

Yesterday we had a fish fry....it was so yummy! We FINALLY cooked all the fish Dan's parents bought us when we were up in Washington. We invited our neighbors over and my parents. We barbecued salmon and fryed the rest of the fish. I also made a shrimp salad and coleslaw, Yummy!

Only three more weeks of school, Yahoo! Summer vacation...Here we come!

What Are You Doing Teaching Preschool?

There are those days when the logical mind says,

you must move on and do a better job of supporting yourself.

Those days when the logical mind says, why did you choose this

career, it is not reasonable.

If the heart can still the mind, then the answers are apparent.

Perhaps logic did not play a great part in choosing our jobs as teachers.

We are truly teaching life's most important lessons to the little ones;

The lesson of love, to love oneself unconditionally and to

share that love with others.

Perhaps we were guided and chosen to be in this place.

For teaching love in a crowded, confused and often angry world

is not somthing everyone can do.

How many people are hugged and told they are loved by the people

they work with each day?

How many people own original works of art created expressly for them?

How many jobs allow you to wipe away tears and make the world

a better place for others?

How many people are allowed to see a tired, weary world

through fresh new eyes,

where all things are possible,

To hear laughter and joy for no big reason, just for being.

When the logical mind says, what are you doing teaching young children?

Listen to your heart one more time.

-Author Unknown

A Brilliant Idea!

So, I got this brilliant idea to take this class that was the last three Saturdays from eight thirty to five thinking it was going to be an easy three credits....yea, right!! I assumed since it was only three Saturday's that there couldn't be that much work involved! Once again, yea, right! It was a full semester of work compiled in just three Saturday's, Ouch!! I'm so glad it's over!! I'm very glad that I took it not only because it was a required class but, it was one of the best classes that I've taken yet! I'm so inspired by the instructor and I got so many new ideas, it was great! The class was so rich with information!! It was wonderful!

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I Left Mine At Home....

Today, the kids at school were.....CRAZY! I think it has alot to do with the weather, it snowed today! I'm not thrilled at all! Anyways, we were lining up outside and I was singing a song to get their attention. I asked them to find their buttons (a polite way to tell them to stop talking and listen!) and my niece said "I left my button at home!" I couldn't believe she told me that! Well, after that they all decided they left their buttons at home, which was apparent! It was crazy! I had to write it down so I wouldn't forget she said that! I also haven't told her Mom she said that yet either!! Funny little girl! You gotta love them!!!

Thirty Plus......

Yesterday was my Birthday........We went to my favorite restaurant with my family and ate dinner to celebrate, it was so yummy!

Dan and Marissa got me a beautiful sorrelli necklace and bracelet set, I love it!! I also got a couple of gift certificates, I'm spoiled!!

Dan asked Marissa yesterday when he was driving her to school how old she thought I was and she told him I was thirty-nine. Thirty-nine? I couldn't believe she said that! Just a couple of years ago she was convinced I was a teenager! I had to convince her that I wasn't a teenager!! Time already goes by so fast don't age me more then I have to...Jess!

Easter

We had a great Easter! We went and spent the day at my parents house. My parents did a Easter egg hunt for the kids and my Mom cooked a big Easter lunch. It was yummy! It was nice to spend the day with my favorite peeps (family)! Marissa got us up at six in the morning to see what she had gotten from the Easter bunny, so we were all very tired when we returned home! I have some cute pictures of our day to come!!

Terrorism On Our School Buses?

I hope this isn't true! I heard today that terrorist have been caught trying to get jobs driving school buses, Yea!! Terrorist driving our children to school! What was the plan here? I can't even bear to think what they were planning! When I heard this I immediatly pictured Marissa's bus driver. It's a white women, with blonde hair! Are we save here, or not? I don't think she looks like a terrorist. I don't know what a terrorist looks like though, do you?? Don't they do backgroung checks on these people?

Bored, with ALOT to do!

Nothing new to write about, I'm just bored! I have a lot to do, I just don't want to do it!

Girl Scout cookie sales are finished! Whoa!!! My troop sold 1,800 boxes of cookies, they sold enough to cover the cost of each of them to go to camp this summer! This sounds like an easy goal to achieve when the cookies are $3.50 a box, but when you discover the troop only receives .50cents per box, that's a huge accomplishment!! I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles!
I had a lot of great Mom's help me this year, I'm so thankful!! I couldn't of done it without them!

Spring has sprung, Again! I hope for good this time!!!! It's suppose to be 78 degrees on Friday! Yay!