Camp Wannadoright!

Last Sunday was our first day back in Jr Church. It actually went pretty smooth. There was even a mom who came with her kids. (No pressure on us!) Kinda ran out of time...it went fast! The 3 of us "counselors" decided to dress the part. One of my kids told me I looked silly and then told me again at school the next day. (I thought my outfit was just beeeauuuutiful!!!)

By the way...a little free advice...always be on your toes...we saw one of our Jr Church girls in Kroger. She saw us just as we were right at the front. She very loudly (announcer/speaker/pager loudly) yelled to her mom down another aisle, "Hey Mom! Look! It's the church people!!!" We smiled and waved with my face matching the tomatoes! Then Wesley proceeded to ram the cart into the back of my heal!! I gritted my teeth and turned around and smiled at him, because after all "We're the church people!"

Believe it!

Debbie told me one of our radio stations in Indy is already playing Christmas music!!!! If you live around here it's 93.1 It just gets earlier and earlier!!! (It's really not that far away though.)
Confession: I'm listening to it now! :)

Yippee!

I was informed tonight at church that there is a new scrapbook store opening up tomorrow!!! I, of course, will definitely be checking that out! We need a good one here! Thanks for the good news Sheila!!!

Weenie-Roast

Tonight was our Jr Church's weenie-roast. We had a pretty good turnout with even a couple of parents that came with their kids. It was incredibly hot and sticky, but the kids seemed to enjoy themselves! We roasted hot dogs, made smores, had a scavenger hunt, a pumpkin seed spitting contest, an egg relay, and a hayride. A couple of rough boys had to be taken home, but other than that things went pretty smooth.

I start teaching tomorrow and after tonight...let's just say...pray, people, pray!!!!

What a week!

This week is absolutely crazy! What is it about fall that makes everyone think they need to plan something and oh...let's make it all in the same week!!!

Monday we had our ladies S.H.A.R.E. meeting which had lots of yummy fall food. I made a pumpkin pie crisp and have managed to eat almost all the leftovers by myself. (So much for the diet).

Tuesday we started decorating the Jr Church room for the new theme. I'm the teacher this month, so add on all that extra preparation. We worked most of the evening on that, along with Karen and Amy.

Wednesday was of course prayer meeting and my piano lessons.

Thursday we did some more decorating down at the Jr Church with Rachel and Micheal. (While I was in the process of painting a sign outdoors, a bird decided to do his business on the back of my shirt!!!! :-( Disgusting)!!! It was a late evening, but got quite a bit done.

Friday is our school's Fall Harvest, so we have been preparing all week for that and I have to still make cookies. Thankfully we get out of school at 11:30.

Saturday is our Jr Church's weenie-roast. We'd like to go to Old Fashion Day at UBC, but don't know if we can squeeze it in.

Sunday is when I start teaching. We've been invited to go to a Marine thing on Sunday afternoon, but don't know...my NAP may be calling my name rather loudly!

By the way...Tomorrow is Smiley Day, so I'm sending out smiles to all of you!!! :)

My class

Sometimes they make you laugh out loud...

Sometimes they make you cry...

Sometimes they make you nervous...

Sometimes they make you excited...

Sometimes they make you tired...

Sometimes they make you glad you're a teacher...

Sometimes they make you long for Friday...

But...they are oh-so-cute!! :)

Just a typical day...

Friday is here and I would just like to say a big Hallelujah! We started our school day with prayer and the little boy blessed our food. (He forgot to bless it when it was actually time to pray for our food). The kids were a little hyper as we always have "Fun Friday" and you never know what's going to happen.
Our morning went very quickly and before we knew it, lunchtime arrived. That's when the fun really started happening. One family brought their mini bags of microwave popcorn. (All these neat little ideas for lunches usually end up being a pain for teachers). This did not pop very well and after I finally got it to work, Wes had to end up peeling the paper off of the popcorn it was so buttery. Sounds yummy, but...another brother didn't do so well. When he went to open up his bag we had an explosion of butter everywhere. The two boys beside him got soaked. The one boy always goes home as neat as he came and it got on his shirt, t-shirt, and pants. This of course threw him off for the day.
After lunch we had our music class. This consist of me plunkin' away on the piano and trying to teach the kids some new songs. We started practicing for a chapel special and everyone had their own special part. It came down to the last two boys singing their verse about playing a harp. Of course we do motions and so I showed them how to play one. They started singing and the one started laughing hysterically. I got to looking and his partner was playing his armpit as his "harp."
Made it back to our classroom and before we knew it, our afternoon break was upon us. I took the kids over to the playground with Mr. Grissom and ran inside the office to fix all the letters up for the weekend. One of my boys decided to take another boys finger and twist and pull on it. So a lecture on bullying began. He wasn't able to do "Fun Friday."
We got back to our classroom again and a girl's lunchbox had a yogurt that literally exploded all over inside. It stunk to high heaven!!! I took everything out and washed it off in the sink wanting to gag the whole time. Marvin came along and ended up hosing it out with his garden hose.
One thing about it...if you want a job where something different happens everyday, you need to be a K-1st teacher.