Christy is
...wondering what to have for dinner
...done w/ a "first draft" of my federal taxes
...hoping I'll get something done @ home tonight, but know I won't because I'm trying to catch up on 2 seasons of Friday Night Lights...
...has a feeling it will be tough to keep the girls from wanting to go out and play in the snow - it is WAY to cold
...mentally exhausted form ISAT practice

Christy is...wishing the flu will leave Hammond! Kaylee woke up sick again at 4:30...she was also starving for a pop tart and ate half of one...we'll see if this stays down.

Guess all I can do today is take advantage and get a few things done around the house. Laundry is done...but not put away...the floors could use another go-over after all the mud tracked in from the weekend gas line repair under the house...the to do list is about a page long. Better get started!

Back to school...

So far January has brought cold weather, a long list of things to do and a broken furnace...space heaters are keeping my house at a comfy 70 degrees...good thing...girls are sleeping camp-out style on my bedroom floor and lay there and giggle...bad thing....sure I will look back on this and laugh...but right now, not so much.

Getting in the "testing" mode at school - final practices on extended response and beginning the schedule...loads of fun-fun stuff...

I think that this week is going to be rough I didn't plan ahead and start going to bed earlier and getting up earlier...it's going to hit hard...

Guess I should try to go to bed...alarm clock is messed up so I'll be using my cell as an alarm...

Merry Christmas

The Holiday Countdown a-la-us...

10...million times I think I heard, "Mom, it's just what I wanted!!!!"

9...stones in the earrings and neclace I got for Christmas

8...trips to three different Walmarts in 8 days

7...times Camp Rock has played on the DVD since the 25th

6...Christmas parties

5...trips to the end of the driveway with all the garbage

4...trips to Hobby Lobby...and two of them were in one day

3...extended days of winter break due to bad weather school was cancelled the 18th, 19th and 20th

2...excited girls that got guitars at my house from Santa

1....birthday party

The pictures you've been waiting for.....Halloween and the first snow at our house...

Halloween pictures.....coming soon....

Why is it that my camera won't "borrow" power from the computer when it's hooked up to the computer?? My old one did. I had to scrounge for batteries so I could download the pictures and since it quit in the middle of it, they did not download...so since I didn't want you all to go without seeing anything, here's a picture of me the night I received my Elementary Math Teacher of the Year Award from the Illinois Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Denise got to present it to me. The ICTM President is on the right.

Why is it that sometimes life is either full of go-go-go with barely time to breathe or nothing's going on?

This week has something on the calendar every night...how do I find time to blog you ask? I'm contracted to be at school until 3:30 - and usually stay a little longer just for some "me" time. Sure I could be researching how to get 5th graders to memorize math facts...but this is a little more fun!

I'll post halloween pictures sometime...they're being held hostage on my camera with no batteries, maybe tomorrow?? I'm not counting on it.