We cooked a large Tyson Pork Roast yesterday. Went to cut it up last night and ran into a small screwdriver! Could you believe it? Guess where we bought it from? WALMART.

I've got so many things to be pleased about that I'm bursting to tell someone. So you get to listen to me boast.

My daughter is doing so well in school. She is going through quarterly exams and the lowest grade she has recieved was a 98%. She has r.ecieved 100% on every spelling test so far this year which began the second week of school and she has had 2 tests a week. Her entire class is now being called by the teachers at school the 'Wonder' class. I'm told (and have seen) that none of the students have any major discipline problems, behavior issues, and all are high achievers. There is no 'lower' reading group or anything like that. Her 3rd grade class mastered cursive penmanship last year and is well on their way to triple digit subtraction and quite a ways along in multiplication tables. The best part of it is I'm told by her teacher that she's leading the class in grades, reading, and math.

Then there's my own schooling. I finished 6 credits this...

For school I'm rewriting my personal Philosophy of Education Statement. Previously my PoEs was written under a strong religious influence and college and for my course requirements I had to more or less write it as my "Personal Religious Philosophy of Education" with a strong religious tone to it. Now I'm writing it from an Agnostic's point of view without any religous tone whatsoever. It's quite a change. It's been causing me to think about some emotions related to my previous religious experiences. I guess the major overtone is a little bitter and I should probably deal with that. I don't even quite know where to begin dealing with that. For now I think I'm just going to concentrate on my PoEs and get that set since it does not DEPEND on my feelings about my previous religious experiences. It only depends on where I stand now religiously if anything and really none of those spiritual beliefs will be included in my Statement. I thought I had figured it all out but if I'm feeling...

What a way to start the day. We were outside having coffee on the deck with our neighbor while her 3 kids, my daughter, and another neighbor boy road their bicycles around and played in our yards. A car drove by the house and up to the intersection of our street and US Hwy 2 in town. Next thing we know we hear a loud CRUNCH! and couldn't see the car anymore. I walked into the porch and looked to the northern end of our porch where it appeared the car outside disappeared against our house. I called out to my husband and said that the car hit the house. He quickly went off the deck and rounded the corner to see what had happened. Next thing I know we're standing there with one of our Bumble Gum Machine cops (they have one single LARGE light in the middle of the top of the car - just like in Mayberry), with a towtruck, the owner of the car, a flattened stop sign, the car, our neighbor and 7 kids (note there were only 5 playing in our yards up to this point and all along the street people...

I've been covering for many teachers and staff at school. I love it. One teacher called me a Jack-of-all-Trades. I've covered in some instances only for a few minutes here or there but it helps and it's fun. I've covered in music, gym, at recess(for the whole time), in the kitchen, in the lunchroom, in the classroom, at storytime, and loading the children on the busses. This week, some of the children have been unreasonably rowdy and even volitile. Several tantrums in my classroom as well as other teachers dealing with the same bahavior in theirs. We've had to close our classroom door to get some quite from other students tantrums or whatnot. I'm guessing it has something to do with all the children spending this last weekend indoors because of the cold and rain all weekend. Today was warm and they were outdoors for recess. We had a new girl helping at recess today. She couldn't believe how overwhelming it was. She hardly knew which way to look. Of course today we had extra kids at noon...