my kids have been quoting nacho libre all week.
i couldn't be more proud.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
patience. ha.
God's sense of humor is not lost on me. i just don't find it funny all the time.
we are in the middle of a series at church called people. we've talked about being grateful for the people in your life, praying for the people in your life, and then yesterday was being patient with the people in your life. they've been great sermons (and no, i'm not saying that because my dad's the pastor. if it gets me a free meal, so be it). i knew what yesterday's sermon would be about because 1) i twitter (and you should too!) and 2) i do the bulletin for church so i see the announcements early.
as i was formatting the text box that held the announcement about being patient with the people in your life, the two people who require the most patience in my life walked in the door: kelli and roddick. kelli walked in talking (rather loudly, but that might have been just my headache) and of course roddick bounded in with his usual energy and started sniffing around me just in case i had some food that i hadn't surrendered to him yet.
i was not amused.
and then i thought about it and started laughing. unfortunately, the irony occurred to me during church, which made for a very uncomfortable five minutes while i attempted to calm myself.
sorry, daddy. thanks for listening to your own sermon.
we are in the middle of a series at church called people. we've talked about being grateful for the people in your life, praying for the people in your life, and then yesterday was being patient with the people in your life. they've been great sermons (and no, i'm not saying that because my dad's the pastor. if it gets me a free meal, so be it). i knew what yesterday's sermon would be about because 1) i twitter (and you should too!) and 2) i do the bulletin for church so i see the announcements early.
as i was formatting the text box that held the announcement about being patient with the people in your life, the two people who require the most patience in my life walked in the door: kelli and roddick. kelli walked in talking (rather loudly, but that might have been just my headache) and of course roddick bounded in with his usual energy and started sniffing around me just in case i had some food that i hadn't surrendered to him yet.
i was not amused.
and then i thought about it and started laughing. unfortunately, the irony occurred to me during church, which made for a very uncomfortable five minutes while i attempted to calm myself.
sorry, daddy. thanks for listening to your own sermon.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
in exactly one week
in exactly one week, i will be doing something, anything, except getting ready for bed!!!!! i'm so excited that spring break is coming for two reasons:
you're welcome.
- no school
- MY BIRTHDAY! (it's exactly one week from today. don't forget!)
you're welcome.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
breakfast, anyone?
i'm not gonna lie-this has been a rough week. i think some evil person told my whole class that since it's so close to spring break, they don't have to work or behave. in fact, they can just be downright rude and disrespectful and fight with each other and give miss hernandez gray hairs (plural-gray hairs).
but today one of my students gave me a reason to laugh. oh, hallelujah.
we've been learning how to write creative stories, which has been...um....interesting. for today's language lesson, they had to write four things they like to eat for breakfast. then they had to write two sentences about what they like to eat for breakfast. then, on the bottom of the page, they had to draw a picture of-you guessed it-what they like to eat for breakfast. i had some really good papers. i had some average papers. i had some not-so-good-what-the-heck-is-breakfast papers. but my favorite was one boy's paper. at the top of the page, two of the four things he wrote were eggs and bacon.
his first sentence was "wakey, wakey, eggs and bacey."
i actually didn't see his paper first; my aide did and she was laughing so hard that she couldn't stop to tell me what was so funny. every time she opened her mouth she would start laughing again, and when she finally read it to me, i couldn't stop laughing. i called the boy who wrote that to my desk, and we asked him if that's what his mom told him. he got embarrassed until we said that we thought it was cute. then he grinned and said that yes, sometimes his mother told him that when she was trying to wake him up. so cute. so stinkin' cute.
but today one of my students gave me a reason to laugh. oh, hallelujah.
we've been learning how to write creative stories, which has been...um....interesting. for today's language lesson, they had to write four things they like to eat for breakfast. then they had to write two sentences about what they like to eat for breakfast. then, on the bottom of the page, they had to draw a picture of-you guessed it-what they like to eat for breakfast. i had some really good papers. i had some average papers. i had some not-so-good-what-the-heck-is-breakfast papers. but my favorite was one boy's paper. at the top of the page, two of the four things he wrote were eggs and bacon.
his first sentence was "wakey, wakey, eggs and bacey."
i actually didn't see his paper first; my aide did and she was laughing so hard that she couldn't stop to tell me what was so funny. every time she opened her mouth she would start laughing again, and when she finally read it to me, i couldn't stop laughing. i called the boy who wrote that to my desk, and we asked him if that's what his mom told him. he got embarrassed until we said that we thought it was cute. then he grinned and said that yes, sometimes his mother told him that when she was trying to wake him up. so cute. so stinkin' cute.
the sweetest thing
yesterday i had the opportunity to see something that just melted my heart.
after school was over, we were standing outside waiting for the parents to come get their kids. there was one cute kindergarten girl who was sitting close to me, her arm wrapped around a pole as she stared off into space. i noticed a lady walking up to her, a camera aimed at her the whole time. it took me a while, but i finally figured out that the lady was this girl's mother. the whole time she had her camera on her daughter, and finally she called her name to get her attention. the little girls looked up, and behind her mother she saw her father-her father who is in the military and has been gone for a while. her face lit up and she ran to him and jumped in his arms while yelling, "DADDY! DADDY!" she put her head on his shoulder while he rocked her back and forth, obviously thrilled to be holding his daughter again.
i got teary-eyed. my aide got chills. and one cute little girl was happy to see her daddy again.
after school was over, we were standing outside waiting for the parents to come get their kids. there was one cute kindergarten girl who was sitting close to me, her arm wrapped around a pole as she stared off into space. i noticed a lady walking up to her, a camera aimed at her the whole time. it took me a while, but i finally figured out that the lady was this girl's mother. the whole time she had her camera on her daughter, and finally she called her name to get her attention. the little girls looked up, and behind her mother she saw her father-her father who is in the military and has been gone for a while. her face lit up and she ran to him and jumped in his arms while yelling, "DADDY! DADDY!" she put her head on his shoulder while he rocked her back and forth, obviously thrilled to be holding his daughter again.
i got teary-eyed. my aide got chills. and one cute little girl was happy to see her daddy again.
Monday, March 2, 2009
i almost forgot...
THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!
like betty, march is the month when the world was graced with my presence. i'm ready to start celebrating. who's with me?!
like betty, march is the month when the world was graced with my presence. i'm ready to start celebrating. who's with me?!
what i am doing right this second
eating dinner. toast, to be exact. is that weird?
today when i got home, i decided to start cleaning out my closet (singular) and drawers (plural-2 of them. only 2. keep that in mind). seeing as how i don't have a whole lot of space, i obviously can't have a whole lot of clothes.
wrong.
it took me 2 hours to clean everything out and organize it. two hours!! i found clothes that i didn't even remember having, like the dress that i wore to graduation...high school graduation. yeah, there were tons of high school clothes in there. not cool. so two hours later, i had filled up a box and three bags of clothes. by the time i was finished, my right knee was hurting (still is) and i was tired-too tired to eat. now i'm hungry and sleepy.
yep, definitely time for bed. buenos nachos, i mean noches.
(i'm still hungry.)
today when i got home, i decided to start cleaning out my closet (singular) and drawers (plural-2 of them. only 2. keep that in mind). seeing as how i don't have a whole lot of space, i obviously can't have a whole lot of clothes.
wrong.
it took me 2 hours to clean everything out and organize it. two hours!! i found clothes that i didn't even remember having, like the dress that i wore to graduation...high school graduation. yeah, there were tons of high school clothes in there. not cool. so two hours later, i had filled up a box and three bags of clothes. by the time i was finished, my right knee was hurting (still is) and i was tired-too tired to eat. now i'm hungry and sleepy.
yep, definitely time for bed. buenos nachos, i mean noches.
(i'm still hungry.)
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