Too Funny - Happy Halloween!

After seeing this, Alex and I were reminded of a comedian who was using the idea of trick-or-treating to explain taxes.



Parents...if Obama gets in, we get to take a hell of a lot more candy from the kids to explain what taxes mean! Is that a good thing?!???

Stewardship

A lesson taught in church this morning...yes, the pastor showed a music video. This story really touched our family in more ways than imaginable.

A Normal Day

4:15 am - Alarm goes off for me to wake up, brush teeth, get on workout clothes, pack up for the day
4:30 am - Out the door, get in car - drive to Plymouth
4:50 am - Walk into Riverview school, put stuff in locker room
5:00 am - Spinning class
5:50 am - Showering, getting ready
6:30 am - Drive to PHS
6:45 am - Set up lab for today; finish correcting tests
7:55 am - Sub during my prep time
8:45 am - Teach
10:15 am - Still correcting those tests
11:32 am - Handing back the recently corrected tests; begin new chapter on the Periodic Table
12:22 pm - Eat Lunch, make this post
12:50 pm - Enter grades
1:10 pm - Teach
2:45 pm - Work at the After School Academy AND do the Detention room
4:15 pm - Negotiations Meeting with School Board
6:00 pm - Pick up kids from Alex (who is now teaching his class at SFHS)
6:30 pm - Make supper
7:30 pm - Check kids' homework, Make sure the son takes a shower and both kids get their reading in for the day
8:30 pm - Kids' bed time; Correct essays & Lab reports; plan lessons
12:00 am - go to bed, sleep for 5 hours and begin again.

And I wonder why with being a room parent, a soccer mom, a Girl Scout leader, helping with Boy Scouts, helping with Alex's campaign and part of a book club that I have no social life...AND why I am tired all the time. When will summer vacation get here?

Growing up

My husband and I have been talking a lot as to when to have the talk with our daughter. Oh, not the sex talk and how your body changes...I've already started those talks with her. No, I'm talking about Santa, the Easter Bunny, St. Nick and yes, the Toothfairy. I remember CLEARLY the night my mother told me there was no Santa. I was in 4th grade (my daughter is in 4th grade). I was in the minority in my grade (being a believer, that is). My parents didn't want me getting teased in school. It happened on Christmas eve on our way to church. It sucked! I cried. I was mad. And then I had to "keep it a secret" from my little sister. I told my hubby we were going to talk to our daughter well before Christmas eve. We've been working up the nerve and the right time to talk with her. We know many in her class have older siblings and those kids in her class have been talking about 'No Santa' for a couple of years.

We did it last night.

No tears. No anger. She was quite impressed that her father and I have taken such great care in keeping her faith in Santa so strong. She was even more impressed when she thought of all her gifts - "So you and dad bought me my bike? And the guitar? The My Twinn doll? When would you do that? Where would you hide them? How did they get under the tree?" She actually smiled, like she was ready to hear it all. Then she told us to have no worries about her little brother, that she'd probably forget it all by morning. That didn't happen. She was in the bathroom with me as I am getting ready asking me more questions and I needed to tell her "not now; Your brother will be up any minute and may hear us talking." Throughout the day, my mind has wondered to my little girl, who is growing up so fast, and wondering if she is bursting inside to talk about the new information she now has.

She'll be 10 soon. She is still my little girl. My girl who now knows the truth. Losing a tooth, Christmas and Easter won't be the same. I feel sad.

My Kids

Okay - today marks the "one month" date until the election; so the whole family was out today helping dad with his campaign. We were knocking on doors and dropping off literature. So as my son and I were walking along, he sees an Obama sign and says "Mom, don't look at it...it will burn out your eyes and make you a zombie!"

Next story...
Yesterday my son had a friend over to play. My son says to his friend "In my class everyone is voting for McCain." His friend replies "Yeah, my whole class is voting for McCain too." My son adds on "In Ben's class there is someone who is voting for Obama." When my son's friend asks who it is. My son named the individual and then says "I have no clue why he would do that!" The two boys sat there laughing and then went on to play Bak-gu-gon (however it is spelled). The boys are 7. Smart boys!

Next story...
My daughter and I are watching "The Mummy Returns" or whatever it is called...it's the second Mummy movie. The part with the little pygmy cannibal creatures starts and I call them pygmy cannibals. My daughter asks what a cannibal is so I define it for her. The then tells me that she no longer wants to eat their soup.
me: "Huh??"
girl: "You know, Cannibal's tomato soup"
me: "Baa haa haa haa haa...hee hee hee"