It's Spring Break and and I survived my parent teacher conferences. And by survived, I mean, actually enjoyed them a little. It was great to meet the parents of my kiddos and get an idea of where they are coming from. I enjoyed talking with a mom that realizes there are issues going on at home as well as school, hence the low grades and lack of focus (it was nice to be on the same page). Parents were really nice and really supportive of the changes I've made in the classroom and no one seemed to be too upset about the switch in the middle of the year. Disappointed, but not upset. It will be really nice when I finally get to go through a WHOLE year on my own, but I'm making it work :)
Anthony and I are headed to Hagerman (in about a 1/2 hour) with the Lund's to go fishing (in the rain) and spend some time away from home. I've never been to Hagerman and I hear it's a nice little place with some fun things to do (like hot springs :) ) I'm exactly looking forward to spending the weekend in the rain, but I'm glad to get away from home for a few days to sit, B.S. and drink a couple beers. Oh, and fish some too haha.
David's birthday is on Thursday and Anthony and I are very excited to go spend it with him. We leave Thursday afternoon and get to spend the whole weekend with David relaxing and not having to worry about doing, well...anything really. I like going to David's :) (once again, I believe some of this time will be spent drinking beer. We really don't drink much, but apparently not having school drives us to open up a few cold ones and let loose a little )
And finally, the weather is getting just a little bit warmer and that means spring will be here soon and I get to be the sick person who enjoys mowing my lawn and tending to my flower beds.
Rachel spent a couple days here at the end of her Spring Break. She came and helped my in my classroom with a very fun art project. They kids got to design their own flower pots and then use crayon to do the outline and pattern then use watercolor to paint it. This went pretty well until one of my girls didn't follow directions, colored the whole thing with crayon and cried for 25 minutes because I wouldn't let her paint. Joy. Otherwise, the kids were very creative. They got to cut out their pots, glue them on to black paper then use tissue paper to put on flowers. Parents really seemed to enjoy them.
Back to Rachel...
I told her that I really needed to get my house decorated for Easter, which meant taking down all the random Shamrocks and setting out a few rabbits.
In the mix of all this I realized how tired I was of my fall flowers I put out. They were great in October, but it's March, I really needed a new change of scenery. We went to Walmart (one of the cheapest places for flowers) and spent about an hour re-designing my flower arrangements. This is how they turned out. I love them!
I swear this should not have been as hard as it was, but this vase took FOREVER to get just right, it's still not perfect, but I like it.
And now the question of the month...what in the WORLD is happening to my bamboo?!?!?
I'm very very unhappy about the yellow/dyingness that is going on here.
If you peel the leaves back it's till green underneath, so I'm hoping it's just going through a stage of molting or something.
So, thank you to Rachel and Tyler for their visit for Spring Break. To Rachel for helping in my class and making flowers with me, and to Tyler for pruning my roses. I should be able to do it by myself from now on :)
Happy Spring! For those of you on break, be safe and enjoy your time off!
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