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Thursday, May 19
10:35 PM really should start documenting stuff again Somehow, it is May 2011. There are 5 weeks left of school, my sweet boy is 6 and finishing kindergarten, and is so smart and fantastic that he's surpassing all of my mom and teacher hopes, my little girl is 3 and batshit crazy about 15% of the time, but SO GD WONDERFUL the other 85% that it's totally worth it. I've been married almost 5 years, my sister has an almost-2 year old who's gorgeous and delightful, and I've learned, only because I had to, that I can actually manage to work full time and care for small people by myself, if only for a few days at a time. What else. My kitchen appliances selection has much improved. We are now rocking a Keurig and a popcorn maker, both of which are awesome. My kids say and do supercute things, and I've been mostly making note of them on Facebook, but as much as I love the old FB, I also really hate it, so I'd like to get away from relying on it. I can post and host my own stuff, bitches. This is too overwhelming to do a good post, so I'll close with my 2 favourite things that they tiny ones have done lately. Kieran, on Mother's Day, unprompted, chose Robert Munsch's "Guess How Much I Love You" for his bedtime story. I cried, but not embarrassingly much. He's great. Willow, out of the blue in the car the other day says, "mama, when I am a grownup and you are a baby, I will pick you up and carry you around. and I will make myself coffee and drink it all up in my tummy." says me ...(link)... you were saying? 0 comments so far. Tuesday, January 26 3:31 PM so, again it's been a really long time. lots going on, but no time to sit down and report it all. also I got an iPod touch for Christmas, so most of my free time is dedicated to downloading apps and playing Bejeweled. Sorry. Kids are lovely, house is good, the man and I are still on speaking terms. No big emergencies or excitements in the last little while, although the boy did fall and smash his face on the deck at the in-laws' place last weekend, and man did it swell! It settled down into a disgusting bruise that made him look very much like he had been in a bar fight. I tried to get him to tell people that he had, but he wasn't up for it. Probably because he doesn't know what that means. Batman doesn't get in bar fights. He's become completely obsessed (to the extent that he's allowed) with the Lego Batman game for the Wii. It's pretty fun, you get to beat everything and everybody up and they break up into lego pieces. We've also been playing Mario Bros a bit. The boy thinks he likes to play, but it's actually almost impossible for him to do most of the things, so not really fun for anyone. Work is going well. We had a class hamster, but its sibling which was in the another middle level class was (oops) impregnated over the Christmas break, so the 2 were taken home. We got another one, and it escaped. Bastard. I'm thinking of getting a guinea pig, they can't really climb out of stuff. Also they're bigger and I would think more resilient. Maybe. Anyway, now we have these 2 cages attached by a maze of tubes, and no frigging hamster. Sigh. I'm about to the point where I'm just going to decide that this is my classroom, and start getting rid of all the years of other peoples' crap that lives here. Old, old, old textbooks, resources that are completely out of date, pamphlets that have no place being handed out to anyone. Nothing useful, naturally, but a bunch of stuff on shelves and an entire closet, as well as an enclosed shelving unit, absolutely FULL of stuff. As much grief as the French classes give me, I do hope to be back here teaching it again next year, and after that. It's still a very new program, and the kids who are taking it mostly don't want to learn French, so that's tricky. It'll get better. It has gotten slightly better, the kids aren't generally so rude, more good-natured when they say "OH NO FRENCH!" as they pass me in the hall. Good times. Anyway. The boy has swimming this evening, so I'm heading out so we can all be fed and ready to go! It may be a supper out night, who knows! I'll call the man and see what he thinks. I'm going to try to convince him that he should take the boy swimming, but since he takes him skating, I think that leaves me in charge of swimming. We have to go in the family change room, which I do understand, but we had been going in the women's, because he's just a wee lad. Last week we were complained about, mamas are uncomfortable with these boys in the room with their girls. Well, ladies, I'm sorry that we don't all have the luxury to have same-gendered children to bring swimming. The "family" change room has no benches, leaving you to put your things on the wet floor and fight a losing battle with your child to keep him from sitting on the wet floor, 2 change rooms which are never available, and a toilet which is too high for a child to use. How is any of that family-friendly? There is also a sign on the door that says "no strollers allowed". I do understand that, but it seems ironic, don't you think? Anyway, rest assured there will be a strongly-worded letter heading to the pool folks shortly. Like I said though, I'm out! says me ...(link)... you were saying? 0 comments so far. Sunday, November 15 8:50 PM holy cow this back to work stuff is really cutting into my blogging time. There's lots going on, teaching grad 7 and a little bit of grade 6, the drama that goes along with that, and trust me, there is drama. I was actually a little suprised to find out that there is drama at every grade level. I have duty outside with the primary (k, 1, 2) kids twice a week and it's mostly swing pushing and shoe tying and door opening so they can go pee, but there's a lot of "I wanted to play with Ashley and Carson told Ashley not to play with me because he said I was mean to him yesterday and but I WASN'T mean to him yesterday and but Ashley won't play with me!" and then tears and then me trying to explain that it's not really fun to play with people who don't want to play with you anyway, so why not find something else to do? The grad 6/7 drama is much more direct, girls being bitchy and boys being jerks and wanting to beat each other up type stuff. The usual, you know. Today the little girl decided she knew how to get out of her crib. She does, sort of, but not really, so her escape was really a matter (I think, I wasn't in there at the time) of her getting a leg up and over and then falling over the rail. It was quite a thump, and I briefly thought, oh, she's thrown her water cup out again (she throws it really hard, and the first couple of times I heard it I thought she had actually jumped out of bed), but then I thought wait, she doesn't have her water cup, so I went in and sure enough, baby's on the floor. I scooped her up, but she was already pretty ticked off at having been put in bed in the first place (naps are for suckers, right?) so she took a few minutes to calm down. le sigh. The boy continues to be generally charming and wonderful, but every now and then I do get the distinct urge to throw him out a window. Or at the very least lock him or myself in a room so that I can escape the crying and whining. I know it's payback, I was a whiny child, but that makes it no less irritating. I'm waiting for the logic to kick in so that when I say things like "if you ____ then _____" and then he does that thing so I do my thing he doesn't completely lose it, or he might even be able to regularly make the decision NOT to do the thing in the first place...but as I've mentioned I'm a teacher, and I'm not seeing a lot of logic and / or planning in any of the students I teach, so I'm not really hopeful it'll happen any time soon. Joys of parenting, yo! We're in the midst of the whole H1N1 thing, we have a couple of cases at school, so a significant portion of parents are keeping their kids home so they'll be safe. Which would make sense if I thought for a minute that they were also keeping them out of like, WalMart, convenience stores, Sobey's, and all the other places where their kids are about 158 times more likely to catch something than at school, where we're all cleaned and disinfected and looked after in a semi-responsible way. Anyway. It makes teaching easier, except that the 1/4 - 1/3 of my class that is missing won't have learned any of this stuff, which is a giant pain in the ass. We're having a flu shot clinic at school on Wednesday afternoon, and I'm interested to see what that's going to do to the school. I'm really quite annoyed that I can't get the shot myself. I'm also annoyed that like, police officers and PRISONERS are annoyed that they can't get the shot, when people like teachers and pharmacists who are far, FAR more exposed to dirt, germs, and viruses than the average joe, are not being put in any "priority group". Miss Baby girl has to go this weekend and get part 2 of her shot, but apparently Mr Little Man doesn't need a 2nd dose. Let's hope that the powers that be have made that decision based on real data, not just based on the fact that they need more vaccine and don't have enough to give our little people their required part 2. We went to Bangor for Thanksgiving weekend and did the bulk of our Christmas shopping for the kids, which is excellent. We have a closet now, a large closet under the stairs, that very much resembles Santa's freaking workshop, but it's all good. We went down with friends of ours, and took their van, and every inch of non-seating space was absolutely filled with stuff on the drive back. It was like a game of tetris trying to get everything in there, and in such a way that any abrupt stops or turns would not lead to someone's untimely demise. Death by play kitchen. Tragic. I have to stop buying things though. Having started so early is great, but now I keep seeing things and being like, one more thing, one more little toy, oh, look at that! wouldn't the baby / the boy just LOVE that? le sigh. As a sidebar, I'm looking for a good book to tell the boy the story of why we actually have Christmas in the first place. We've told him, but he loves to read books, so if we had a good book that would be even better. I bought the new mario Wii game, and should really either be playing that or going to bed, so I'm going to go maybe flip a coin and decide. says me ...(link)... you were saying? 1 comments so far. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
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