longest short week

holy cow!  this has been the longest, short week EVER!  you'd think after missing three days of school that the kids would come back calmer than they were on monday anticipating the winter storm....WRONG!  i can't adequately describe the incessant chatter that was going on.  and how dumb was i to take them to the library to do research!

one student told me that their animal didn't even have a mother, it was born on it's own.  and another one was trying to find information about lions and one of the links was to the detroit lions.  she asked me what kind of lion that was!  if the description hadn't followed the link, i would have been a little more understanding but if she had just read she would have noticed it mentioning the NFL detroit lions!!!  oh....my....gosh!  they couldn't spell google or mongoose or biome or sloth or anything else!  i was about ready to scream!!!

but one nice part of my day was that because of all this research we've been doing about animals from the 6 major land biomes, one of my sweet students made panda cupcakes for all of us!  they were almost too cute to eat!

pic of the day #30

edible panda

oh, and another thing....if varmint #2 doesn't stop putting these bug stickers next to light switches, i'm gonna hang him by his toes!  i'm not scared of bugs, or anything, i'm just not used to one being next to the light switch every time i reach for it!  he was just putting them in his room, but this one crawled into the living room over the past few days!

it wasn't really a bad day.  i'm just grouchy because i don't feel good!  i have a cold or something that won't go away.  my nose is stopped up, but it keeps running!!!  how much sense does that make????  i blow and nothing comes out.  i just sit here and it starts dripping on its own! ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!  it's annoying!

quote of the day:  "If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers."  ~Edgar W. Howe  {so true some days! :)}