Should I... Shouldn't I ...

Sometimes it is so hard to know whether or not to keep your child home from school. Well, only if they don't have a high fever. Then it's easy. Well, last night Kali threw up one time. A LOT!! But only once. I immediately called my boss and told him that I would not be there. Well, then the rest of the night, and throughout the night she was fine. When I got her up, she said her stomach hurt, but she still had no fever. Hence my dilemma. Should she go or stay. Well, after much deliberations, I opted with the staying at home option. Guess What??? I made the right choice. At about 9:30, she had started with fever. Right now she has Tylenol in her, so she feels okay, but I am glad I kept her home. Now, it was also the right decision for me. I am also feeling really lousy, and couldn't have been much of a teacher to my first graders. Oh well , enough complaining. Hope I didn't bore you to much. Bye....

P.S. This picture has nothing to do with this post, but I hate doing a post without a picture, and none of us look good enough to take a picture today.

I LOVE FIRST GRADERS!!

I am a teacher, and really enjoy teaching the first grade. I have done kindergarten, first, and second. But first grade, by far, is my very favorite. They are not so little, that they can't do anything, but they are little enough so that they still love the small things.
This week in my class of 19, we had a teddy bear slumber party. They all brought stuffed animals to school. They got to take them everywhere on Thursday, and then Thursday night the bears stayed at school. When the kids got to school Friday morning, they were shocked to see that the "bears" had, had a major party the night before. There were juice boxes, chip bags, cookie bags, toys, a pizza box, and many other things thrown around the room. Here comes the best part, all nineteen students just knew that their bears had done this. It was great to see their expressions, and to feel their excitement.

That is why I love first graders. They still are young enough to appreciate the small things. Here are a couple of pictures of the room before the kids cleaned it up. Yes, of course they cleaned it up because it was their bears that made the mess. Just like a mom cleans up after them, I told them. They loved even the clean up event. =)

Friends for Now...

Sometimes my girls get along great!! However, these times, seem at times, to be few and far between. So whenever it happens I hope to have my camera nearby. On this particular night, Kali wanted to do the tango. I am not sure why, but Emily was more than happy to oblige. When these times happen, Chris and I are very happy people. Bye....

Long Time, No Blog!!

Well, I am not even going to say that I have been too busy to blog. I just have been too lazy, to try and come up with something to write about. I am not as talented with that, as someone else I know. =) I hope that my family, that lives out of state, has not stopped checking the blog altogether.

I had Emily's teacher take a couple of pictures of her in her classroom. The second graders have some hermit crabs as their class pets. Emily as taken it to be her personal responsibility to be the sole cleaner of their habitat. I think this is hilarious!!! Especially if you saw the pictures of her messy room. However, it is her primary concern to make sure that those hermit crabs have the cleanest habitat around.

Kali is doing very well in school. She is so excited about starting kindergarten in the fall. I cannot believe that she will actually be in real school. She already knows the lady who will be her teacher and is so excited.

Well hopefully I will post again soon, but no promises. Bye.....

Family Fun Day!!

It is not often that Chris and I get a day off together. In fact, it only happens on Sundays, and since that is church, we are usually pretty busy. So today, we both had off. We started the day with breakfast at Coffee Call. Yummy!!!! The girls and I love this. I love their cafe au lait. I could drink that everyday. Then we decided to go to the LSU lake and walk a little. Oh, did I say a little, what I meant was 3 1/2 miles. Even the girls, well Chris carried Kali some, but not much. Emily did almost the whole thing walking, except for one very short stretch. My muscles will be sore tomorrow. It was a beautiful day however, so that helped. Plus, my wonderful husband, is in the kitchen right now preparing us a wonderful meal of stirfry, and fried rice. I absolutely love having a husband who can cook. I am also not at all embarrassed to say that he can cook much better than me. Well that is about it. I loved getting to spend the whole day with my family. Bye....

New Bedrooms!!!

I tried to post the after pictures yesterday, but blogger was not being kind to me. However, they can have clean bedrooms. Believe it or not, those are the same rooms. I was shocked. Emily has decided she likes her room a lot better clean. We'll see how long that last. I was very happy with the results. They both made their beds this morning, and were very proud of themselves. I will post some pictures of our walk that we took this morning at the LSU Lake, later today. Bye...

Who Lives in These Rooms????

Can you believe that these bedrooms belong to my two little girls?? Well, they do. Today we will be cleaning these bedrooms, and hopefully I will have the cleaner pictures soon. I told you that I needed to do housework and I was not kidding. Now if you are expecting to see pictures of any other area in our house, think again. That, my friends, will not be happening. Hope to post some cleaner pictures later. Bye!