I'm tired...

too tiiiiired to move! DH and I have been working more in the basement, we spent 3 party days at the trailer and I've got two days in with the kids at school. Is it Friday yet???

The basement walls are ready to paint. Yesterday night we put a texture on the walls. DH worked the implement you use with an air compressor in order to spray plaster for a texture on the wall. I moved the chair, kept changing where the floor protection (cardboard) was, got water, shook more dry mix into the plaster, held the sprayer while DH attached the air hose, and, (and this is a BIG and!) cleaned up the floor when he spilled an entire bucket of water. That was last night after school. The walls are not quite dry, but tomorrow he should be able to knock off some high points and then he can spray on the primer with a paint sprayer. After that comes the paint. The ceiling is also being painted, rather than putting in a hanging ceiling. It will all be white. So, it looks like we are going to make the deadline (next Tuesday) for the vinyl installation! Woo hoo! Soon I'll be able to move into my new quilting studio!

We stayed home last Friday night to work and then went up to the trailer on Saturday morning. There was a party on Saturday night, put on by a guy in honor of his "new" birthday, after 7 bypasses 17 years ago. His wife made "booyah." I'm not sure if I spelled that right; it's a big thing around this area. I call it chicken soup. But they make about 50 gallons of it at a time. It's at every church picnic for miles around! Then Sunday we had another party, for a birthday (although she always just says it is a Labor Day party). Then on Monday for lunch we had leftovers from the second party. The first two had the entire "loop" invited, but the leftovers were just the smaller group around us. We are so lucky to have so many nice people to associate with up at the campground. We already have our date set for meeting at a motel in Sturgeon Bay for a weekend in February. =-)

The beginning of school is so boring. Yesterday we had homeroom to hand out schedules with locker assignment, and fill out some registration things, then shortened classes during which I handed out my expectations sheet and went over it. Then we had homeroom again to hand out tons of stuff for the kids to take home. Today we started with homeroom to collect all of the things that they had to fill out and return. Then I had to take each of my classes to get their pictures taken. We had about 15 minutes left and I went over some classroom routines. Tomorrow I have to do the same thing again except it is to go get textbooks. If I have any time left over I will have them do a "Classroom Profile" graph. It's a big thing we have to do to show them that everyone is different and it also helps us to know how our students feel about their learning, and we use it for differentiated assignments. Then I'll launch into "Why do we study history." Sounds exciting, huh? I try to make it interesting though, and usually I succeed!

The highlight of my day was when we had extra time in my homeroom and one of the boys who knew me from Environmental Club two years ago asked me to tell my "Squirrel" stories. I'll tell you, they love to hear those squirrel stories! I also told some fishing stories. Kids love hearing about my childhood. I don't tell them some of the "adult" stories, but they love hearing about how a teacher got in trouble as a kid. heh heh heh That's why they call me Angel!