His glasses are a big hit...apparently...

I hem and haw (how do you spell that anyway?!?!?) over if it's a good thing to have yahoo accessible at school or not. Today it made my day when I got a notification email because someone posted on my Facebook wall...

It was from a mother of my favorite redhead, that just happens to be in my class (I just realized I never posted about the love note from the red head!). This hilariously funny volunteer mama can be found over at HUSH.

Her #1 and #2 children are also hilarious (I don't know #3 yet but looking forward too soon!) and are very "in tune" with the world around them.

Here is the convo she sent me. D is the oldest and F is the middle child...

D: "good job Chuck"
mom: "what?"
D: "he did a real good job tearing out all those math pages last Summer. I was wondering if they were straight"
F: "Oh yea, Chuck, that guy did a nice job on our 100 day yesterday"
D: "was he wearing his glasses?"
F: "how would I know??"

This made me laugh all day long...as well as "Chuck's"!

One Snowy Night...(a long time coming!)

Soo....as you see in the title...this post has been a long time coming. I was waiting for one of these pics that I felt was the key to completing this post...so here you are...


It all started December 29th...it was a rainy day but it was sunny for me! I was signing papers on my new house! We drove out to Washington Square area to meet with the Title Company. The Boy was sitting next to me cheering me on as I was signing my life away...literally. All the sudden he looks up and goes, "There's the snow!" I had no idea it was even in the forecast let alone supposed to be dumping white stuff out the window! I signed and signed and signed and then I was done. We came out and saw the streets were fine! So dumb and dumber headed to the mall across the street to pick up some shoes we had our eyes on. As we came out the mall the white stuff was dumping harder...still the roads were good. Please understand at this point we head home and there are many routes we can take. Oh yes and don't forget we are in The Boys' truck that is HUGE and has NO, I repeat NO four wheel drive (who makes a truck with no 4 wheel drive?) And if you aren't aware, driving a huge truck with no 4 wheel drive is like getting on an ice skating rink...it's bad...very bad. Instead of getting on the freeway we decide to take a "short cut" (read: 1 hour later we were back where we started) As we arrived on the short cut road...the roads were NO LONGER good. We needed to get back to the freeway. It took us 1 more hour to do that...approximately 3 miles?!?!? I can see the panic is The Boys' eyes and I knew if he was panicked I should be triple panicked...that's when my super duper idea came to me!!! STAY IN A HOTEL AND CALL IT A NIGHT! One would think a hotel .2 miles away would be easy to get to...SORRY! 45 minutes later and a lot of DUMB people we make it to The Grand Hotel! In only the clothes we were wearing BUT thank god we had new shoes! Crocs to be exact...you know really good snow shoes! Oh yes and in honor or signing my papers I decided to go with fashion instead of warmth...so I had on a long sleeve t-shirt with only a vest over the top. Lovely!

Lucky for us The Grand Hotel was having a special...something about dumbasses who couldn't get home...and apparently Ron Jon at the front desk knew it was our 1 year anniversary so he kindly upgraded us for free!

We arrived in our room of luxury shortly after 5 pm. Immediately I jumped in the tub!This was the nicest place we ever stayed so we took full advantage! A jacuzzi in the living room with robes to go with it!

We headed across to the mall to eat at PF Changs and then to Whole Food to pick up cheap wine and "natural" oreos!
Oh yeah...who cares we didn't have wine glasses!

It was a fun night to remember...when we arrived back at the hotel we walked right in on a wedding reception...who gets married on a Tuesday????? Poor things! Bless their hearts!The Boy with his robe and "new shoes" on!!!

Teacher Appreciation Week

This week is teacher appreciation week at my school...I love this week because of things like the above...SO PRECIOUS!!!

And things below...it helps to have parents that have season Blazer Tickets!

Toothless Wonder...

Everyday after morning recess is snack time. While the kiddos are eating, I read out of my favorite series of books, Junie B. Jones. She is a hoot! The books are told in the perspective of a Kindergartener, Junie, and then she goes to First Grade. She has a sassy mouth so we are sure to discuss what things she says are right and wrong. It's kind of cute when I am reading and she uses words like "Dumb Bunny" and the class gasps!

The other day I was reading out of Junie B, Toothless Wonder. She had lost her first front tooth. A boy in her class had scared her by telling her that the tooth fairy was not really a fairy..she was a witch that ate her teeth! This like everything else prompted a heavy conversation between my 6 and 7's. Miss E shared that the tooth fairy makes necklaces out of our teeth but my all time favorite comment of the day...

Mr. L: "Well the last tooth I lost I didn't get so much money for...the toothfairy said because of the bad economy and all she just wasn't making that much money..."

I love my job...

Monkey See Monkey Do...

Yesterday when I picked up the children...my line leader Mr. D was thrilled beyond belief. He was talking as fast as he could BEFORE I even got to him. The convo went something like this

Mr. D: "Miss MegPie...I went across the monkey bars 5 times today!"

Me: "Wow that must mean you are getting strong!"

(Mr. D keeps talking about how good he is at those monkey bars and I am tuning him out trying to gather my stray cats!)

Mr. D: "I will tell you what Miss MegPie...those monkey bars will change your life!"

Me and Boy behind him: "hahahaha"

Mr. D: "It's true they have made my life so much better!"


He was pretty excited...sidenote...now is the time they start to master those in the year...and they ALL have calluses on their hands!

L*I*G*H*T

Sometimes when we work on spelling at school I get myself into a jam...

As you remember from last year..I believe one little guy spelled PORN when we were rhyming...it's those darn rhyming words that get me everytime!

This time it was just the word...

Me:  "Okay boys and girls this word is "light"  

"What's the word?"

Kids: "Light"

Me:  "Who has a sentence for the word light?"

Mr. M: "Not too heavy...not to light...BUD LIGHT!"

Me: NEXT?

Mi Casa...

I got my keys on December 30th...very surreal experience...we didn't get a whole lot moved the first day but number one priority was the bed.  There was NO WAY I was not sleeping in my new house on the first night!