SNOW DAY!!!! SNOW DAY!!!! SNOW DAY!!!!

Yeah for a SNOW DAY!!!

Pinconning - 5 (at least) snow days

Bay City - 4 snow days

Essexville - 3 snow days

Saginaw - finally 1 snow day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even Adam has a snow day right now because they have no power at work so his boss told him not to come in as of now. First time he ever remembered getting a snow day from work.

I plan to enjoy EVERY MINUTE of my snowday!!!!

The rest of you have fun at work. :) :) :)

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

I have taken a break from my Olympics viewing long enough to wish myself a very happy 3rd 25th birthday. It was a fun day, my kids fussed over me all day (too bad they didn't behave). Kayleen made me a GREAT SUPPER!!! Yummy. I was thinking I should to my dishes, but I decided we can survive without knifes and glasses for one more day, tonight it is time to celebrate!!!

...and in true celebration form, I will probably be in bed by 10 because I am getting a cold.

Excuse me while I search through my cupboards for ice cream, chocolate, or both!!

I LOVE the Olympics!!!!

Sorry to disappoint my avid readers (all 2 of you), but you probably won't be hearing much from me the next few weeks.

Reason: 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Yes, I am an Olympic freak.

It is right up there with my favorite things like Disneyland and Redwings Hockey.

Don't know why, but I thoroughly enjoy watching the Olympics.

I am probably one of the few people that make it though the Parade of Nations in the Opening ceremonies without changing the channel. Love, Love, LOVE it!!!

I can't explain why, but I love these games. I love the sportsmanship, the element of surprise, rooting for the underdog, and hearing the stories of athletes from all over the world and what it took to get them there (which they always share the dramatic ones).

I watch it (almost) all too....Figure skating, speed skating, short track, downhill skiing, moguls, snowboarding!!!!!, ski jump, hockey, skiing again and again.... (sorry, I draw the line at curling & the cross-country skiing sports)

Ahh, my favorite 2 weeks every 4 years.

I'll see you all in a couple of weeks. :)

A funny/yet sad story

This is the week of stories for me, but I had to share this one.

We had pretty crummy weather in this area on Monday and a lot of schools were closed (not mine of course). One of the kindergarten kids that usually goes home with his aunts (who are in 1st & 3rd grade) was left at school with no one to pick him up because his aunts hadn't come to school. After numerous phone calls and attempted contacts, the pre-school teacher ended up driving him to his grandma's house (mother of the aunts). When she got there, the family were all surprised to see that he had gone to school because..... (this is the funny part)

They had seen USA school listed as closed on the TV and thought all the schools in the United States were closed.

For those of you that don't know USA schools is the area abbreviation for Unionville-Sebewing Area Schools.

Yup, we didn't know wither to laugh at the sure craziness of it or cry at the ding dong moment.

But, I had to share it anyways.

You know you really want a new teaching job when...

You check the school closings on any slightly poor weather day and make mental notes of who gets the most snow days.

Yes, winter has finally arrived in Michigan, about 2 months late and I am already sick of the below 30 degree weather and it's only been about 2 days worth of it. With the snowing and blowing, it's the time of year to work in a country school system, not a city school system!

Funny Story

This is a funny story a co-worker told me about one of her students that I just had to share. I have his big sister in my class and I know this kid pretty well. Just imagine someone really little, cute, and can't hold still for nothing and you've got the visual of Kelly.

The teacher was just sitting there talking to Kelly about all sorts of general stuff. They were talking about how he was named after his dad but Kelly said his dad was in prison for breaking into people's house (don't worry, this is not the funny part).

Kelly - "When I grow up, I'm not going to break into houses, I am going to buy me a big blue house."

Teacher - "Will your house be here in Saginaw?"

Kelly - "No way, it will be down south in Flint of course."

Apparently Kelly went on to describe all the other things he was going to buy for his new house, all of which were just cute and then said this...

Kelly - "and I'm going to have me a big blue car too, with blue training wheels too."

Teacher - "Training wheels, why do you need those?"

Kelly - "You didn't think I could drive a car without them did you? I'm not old enough!"

You would have to know Kelly(who falls out of chairs on a regular basis), but it is still really funny. I love when kids transfer their knowledge of other things (like bikes) incorrectly to cars. We had a good laugh over this one.