Yesterday I was sick. Sicker than I’ve been in a long time. To be honest, I’m not positive I was sick. I think it might have been exhaustion. Whatever it was, my body felt like it was shutting down. My legs and my back hurt so badly that I couldn’t stand up. I was so […]
responsibility
Having Trouble Getting Your Kids To Help Out Around The House? Try This.
If you are anything like me, you have spent all day cleaning your house only to turn around and see your kids mess it up 5 minutes later. Or you have spent a half hour searching for a lost shoe for one of your kids. For the last time. You have yelled and threatened your […]
Education starts at home. And it might finish at home, too.
I’m thinking about homeschooling the kids. There. I said it. I know. You think I’m crazy. In January I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I was overloaded, overwhelmed, and completely exhausted. Now I’m supposed to be streamlining. Cutting things back. Doing less. Homeschooling won’t exactly lighten the workload. But I have been […]
If at first you don’t succeed…
So I did it again. Yesterday I started a sentence with “When I was a kid…” This getting older crap sucks. Anyway. When I was a kid, you had some respect for the teacher. About 10 years ago when I taught 4th grade I had a student who was pretty much doing nothing in school. […]
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller
My husband says I’m kind of a contradiction. Because in some areas of my life, I’m an it’s-better-to-ask-for-forgiveness-than-permission kind of a girl. My last year of teaching, I had a Bring Your Pet to School Day. I arranged for it to be outside in the upper parking lot behind the school. I didn’t mention it […]
No, sometimes I can’t handle the truth. But I’m getting there.
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Some people love me for my big mouth. They say they admire how I call it like I see it. That I […]